The instanton Poincaré conjecture

Let YY be a connected, closed, oriented 33-manifold, and let I(Y;F2)I^\sharp(Y;\mathbb{F}_2) denote its framed instanton homology over the field with two elements. Instanton Poincaré conjecture. The 33-sphere S3S^3 is the only such manifold satisfying

dimI(Y;F2)=1.\dim I^\sharp(Y;\mathbb{F}_2)=1.

This is proposed as an instanton analogue of the Poincaré conjecture, motivated by the fact that the framed instanton homology of the Poincaré sphere has 22-torsion over the integers. The supplied text does not state whether this conjecture has been resolved.

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Zhenkun Li and Fan Ye, “Instanton 2-torsion and Dehn surgeries”, arXiv:2508.03394 (2025).

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