Kollár's conjecture on Brieskorn spheres and integer homology balls

For integers a1,,ana_1,\ldots,a_n, let Σ(a1,,an)\Sigma(a_1,\ldots,a_n) denote the corresponding Brieskorn sphere. A smooth integer homology ball is a smooth 44-manifold with the same integer homology as the 44-ball.

Kollár's conjecture. No Brieskorn sphere Σ(a1,,an)\Sigma(a_1,\ldots,a_n) with n4n\geq 4 is the boundary of a smooth integer homology ball.

The conjecture is connected with the Montgomery–Yang problem on circle actions on S5S^5 and with the Bogomolov–Miyaoka–Yau inequality. The source describes it as longstanding and gives no resolution.

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Thomas E. Mark and Bülent Tosun, “On contact type hypersurfaces in 4-space”, arXiv:2008.02755 (2026).

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