Conjecture on the balanced genus of products of spheres with the circle
Let d≥3d\geq 3d≥3, and let GM\mathcal{G}_MGM denote the balanced genus of a PL ddd-manifold MMM. Consider the product manifold Sd−1×S1\mathbb{S}^{d-1}\times\mathbb{S}^1Sd−1×S1. Balanced-genus conjec…