The Poincaré conjecture concerns a space that locally looks like ordinary three dimensional space but is finite and lacks any boundary (a closed 3-manifold). The claim is that if such a space has the additional property that each loop in the space can be continuously tightened to a point, then it is really just a three-dimensional sphere. The analogous result has been known to be true in higher dimensions for some time.
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