The boundary Dehn twist conjecture for the Case 2 Cayley-fibration fiber

Let FF be a smooth manifold homeomorphic to

K3#K3#(S2×S2).K3\# K3 \# (S^2 \times S^2).

Let BFB\subset F be a small 44-ball. A boundary Dehn twist is the boundary-supported diffeomorphism of FBF\setminus B associated with a Dehn twist of its boundary; it is nontrivial when it represents a nontrivial mapping class. Boundary Dehn twist conjecture. The manifold FBF\setminus B admits a nontrivial boundary Dehn twist. This conjecture concerns the fiber topology arising in Case 2 of the paper's classification theorem and is closely related to the open question whether the corresponding manifolds satisfy Property (S); its status is unresolved.

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Viktor F. Majewski and Jacek Rzemieniecki, “Obstructions to Smooth Full-Holonomy Cayley Fibrations”, arXiv:2603.26920 (2026).

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