Nonhomeomorphic closed aspherical four-manifolds

Claimed, not checked 1 paper October 4, 2026
What the paper claims, in its own words

Constructs closed connected aspherical topological four-manifolds that are homotopy equivalent but not homeomorphic, with a common word-hyperbolic fundamental group. This disproves even the homeomorphism-existence formulation of the Borel conjecture in dimension four.

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