Bryant's modified Bing–Borsuk conjecture

A locally compact space is homogeneous if its homeomorphism group acts transitively on the space, and an ANR-space is an absolute neighborhood retract. A generalized nn-manifold is a locally compact nn-dimensional ANR-space that is a Z\mathbb Z-homology nn-manifold, meaning that for every xXx\in X,

Hk(X,X{x};Z)=0if k<n,H_k(X,X\setminus\{x\};\mathbb Z)=0 \quad\text{if } k<n,

and

Hn(X,X{x};Z)=Z.H_n(X,X\setminus\{x\};\mathbb Z)=\mathbb Z.

Bryant's modified Bing–Borsuk conjecture. Every locally compact homogeneous ANR-space of dimension n3n\geq 3 is a generalized nn-manifold. This modifies the Bing–Borsuk conjecture to allow generalized manifolds; it is motivated by known counterexamples to the original conjecture and remains unresolved.

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Vesko Valov, “Homogeneous locally compact spaces”, arXiv:2401.00341 (2023).

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