Resolution conjecture for generalized manifolds

Let XX be a generalized nn-manifold, meaning a locally compact nn-dimensional ANRANR-space that is a Z\mathbb Z-homology nn-manifold. The space XX is resolvable if there is a proper surjective map f:MXf:M\to X from a manifold MM such that each fiber f1(x)f^{-1}(x) is contractible in every neighborhood of itself in MM.

Resolution conjecture. Every generalized nn-manifold for n3n\geq 3 is resolvable.

The conjecture is true in dimension 33 only insofar as the source says that it implies the Poincaré conjecture and that partial cases are known. It is false in higher dimensions: non-resolvable generalized nn-manifolds exist for every n6n\geq 6.

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Vesko Valov, “Homogeneous metric ANR-compacta”, arXiv:2003.06907 (2020).

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