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Manuscript 1 (family 320, 2026-10-04): The nonhomeomorphic aspherical pair refutes the Borel-rigidity clause of this broad bundle, but does not decide its idempotent, K-group, signature, FP/FF or higher-dimensional realization clauses.

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Contents
  1. Algebraic K-Theory and Rigidity Conjectures for Discrete Groups
  2. OpenAI's claim
  3. Mathematical statement of the claimed result
  4. Mathematical claim 1.
  5. Outline of the argument
  6. Formal verification
  7. Status caveat
  8. Sources

Algebraic K-Theory and Rigidity Conjectures for Discrete Groups

OpenAI's claim

Two closed aspherical topological four-manifolds are claimed homotopy equivalent but not homeomorphic, sharing a word-hyperbolic fundamental group; one also admits a self-equivalence outside every homeomorphism homotopy class. The cited manuscript argues for that result; its relation to this problem is specified below.

Mathematical statement of the claimed result

Mathematical claim 1.
OpenAI claims closed connected aspherical topological four-manifolds $M,N$ with a common word-hyperbolic fundamental group such that \[ M\simeq N\quad\text{but}\quad M\not\cong N\text{ by any homeomorphism}. \] Aspherical means that the universal cover is contractible; $\simeq$ denotes homotopy equivalence. A second theorem claims a topological four-manifold that is aspherical, closed and connected $M$ and a self homotopy equivalence $f:M\to M$ for which no homeomorphism is homotopic to $f$. These are four-dimensional topological counterexamples; the first excludes homeomorphism existence in any homotopy class.

Outline of the argument

Manuscript 1 (family 320, 2026-10-04): Reflected marked chambers retain an odd-cover filling obstruction, and carefully chosen binary label relations eliminate unwanted chamber symmetries. Hyperbolicity and Poincare duality make the outer automorphism group finite, with a controlled normalizer of the realized chamber action. A hypothetical homeomorphism would transport another finite action into that realized subgroup and force an excluded conjugacy.

Formal verification

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Status caveat

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Sources