Kollár's conjecture on Brieskorn spheres and integer homology balls
For integers , let denote the corresponding Brieskorn sphere. A smooth integer homology ball is a smooth -manifold with the same integer homology as the -ball.
Kollár's conjecture. No Brieskorn sphere with is the boundary of a smooth integer homology ball.
The conjecture is connected with the Montgomery–Yang problem on circle actions on and with the Bogomolov–Miyaoka–Yau inequality. The source describes it as longstanding and gives no resolution.
References
Primary source
Thomas E. Mark and Bülent Tosun, “On contact type hypersurfaces in 4-space”, arXiv:2008.02755 (2026).
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