Kollár's algebraic Montgomery–Yang conjecture

Let SS be a rational homology projective plane with quotient singularities, and write

S0:=SSing(S).S^0:=S\setminus\operatorname{Sing}(S).

The smooth locus S0S^0 is assumed to be simply connected. Kollár's algebraic Montgomery–Yang conjecture. If S0S^0 is simply connected, then SS has at most three singular points. This problem concerns the maximal number of quotient singularities on a rational homology projective plane and is an algebraic analogue of the Montgomery–Yang problem for pseudo-free smooth circle actions on the 55-sphere. The source states that the present paper completely resolves it.

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Primary source

Woohyeok Jo, Jongil Park and Kyungbae Park, “The Algebraic Montgomery-Yang Problem”, arXiv:2607.06686 (2026).

Additional references

5 papers in this index state this conjecture (2009–2026). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:2402.04569, arXiv:2012.13355, arXiv:0906.0633, arXiv:0904.2975.

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