
sphere
The Double Cap Conjecture ★★
Author(s): Kalai
Conjecture The largest measure of a Lebesgue measurable subset of the unit sphere of
containing no pair of orthogonal vectors is attained by two open caps of geodesic radius
around the north and south poles.


Keywords: combinatorial geometry; independent set; orthogonality; projective plane; sphere
Smooth 4-dimensional Poincare conjecture ★★★★
Author(s): Poincare; Smale; Stallings
Conjecture If a
-manifold has the homotopy type of the
-sphere
, is it diffeomorphic to
?




Keywords: 4-manifold; poincare; sphere
Smooth 4-dimensional Schoenflies problem ★★★★
Author(s): Alexander
Problem Let
be a
-dimensional smooth submanifold of
,
diffeomorphic to
. By the Jordan-Brouwer separation theorem,
separates
into the union of two compact connected
-manifolds which share
as a common boundary. The Schoenflies problem asks, are these
-manifolds diffeomorphic to
? ie: is
unknotted?












Keywords: 4-dimensional; Schoenflies; sphere
