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The Novikov conjecture is one of the most important unsolved problems in topology. It is named for Sergei Novikov who originally posed the conjecture in

The Novikov self-consistency principle, also known as the Novikov self-consistency conjecture and Larry Niven's law of conservation of history, is a principle

Novikov conjecture. From about 1971, he moved to work in the field of isospectral flows, with connections to the theory of theta functions. Novikov's

conjecture Kelvin's conjecture Kouchnirenko's conjecture Mertens conjecture Pólya conjecture, 1919 (1958) Ragsdale conjecture Schoenflies conjecture (disproved

Farrell-Jones Conjecture for mapping class groups", arXiv:1606.02844 [math.GT] Ranicki, Andrew A. "On the Novikov conjecture". Novikov conjectures, index theorems

topological manifold, then the group must be a Lie group. Mazur's conjectures Novikov conjecture on the homotopy invariance of certain polynomials in the Pontryagin

The chronology protection conjecture is a hypothesis first proposed by Stephen Hawking that laws of physics beyond those of standard general relativity

conclusion from an isometry to a homeomorphism. The Borel conjecture implies the Novikov conjecture for the special case in which the reference map f : M

fundamental contributions to the Novikov conjecture on homotopy invariance of higher signatures, the Baum–Connes conjecture on K-theory of group C*-algebras

represented, in particular, by considerable progress on the Novikov conjecture and the Baum–Connes conjecture and the development and study of related group-theoretic