The symplectic cone polytope conjecture

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Let WW be a symplectic 44-manifold. The symplectic cone is the set of all classes in H2(W;R)H^2(W;\mathbb{R}) represented by symplectic forms. Let C⊂H2(W;R)C\subset H^2(W;\mathbb{R}) be a possibly non-compact polytope, and let F1,…,FsF_1,\dots,F_s be open top-dimensional faces of CC.

Symplectic cone polytope conjecture. There exists such a polytope CC satisfying:

  1. Its dual polytope in H2(W;R)H_2(W;\mathbb{R}) is compact, symmetric, convex and integral.
  2. The symplectic cone is precisely the set of all non-degenerate elements in the cone on F1,…,FsF_1,\dots,F_s.

The conjecture is motivated by the preceding determination of the symplectic cone for a significant class of 44-manifolds and by its expected analogy with the fibered cone of a 33-manifold. The source does not state a resolution.

References

Primary source

Stefan Friedl and Stefano Vidussi, “Symplectic 4-manifolds with a free circle action”, arXiv:0801.1513 (2012).

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