Standardness conjecture for Berge-knot homotopy projective planes

Let XX be a homotopy CP2\mathbb{CP}^2 constructed in Proposition~ from a Berge knot. Standardness conjecture. The manifold XX is diffeomorphic to the standard CP2\mathbb{CP}^2. These constructions produce homotopy CP2\mathbb{CP}^2's with handle decompositions having only one 33-handle, and the source presents the claim as an open conjecture.

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Marco Golla and Brendan Owens, “The Farey tree and embeddings of lens spaces and rational balls in CP^2”, arXiv:2512.09183 (2025).

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