Finiteness conjecture for irreducible 4-manifolds of fixed complexity

Let cc be a natural number, and let a complexity-cc irreducible 4-manifold mean an irreducible 4-manifold having complexity cc. Finiteness conjecture. For every natural number cc, there are only finitely many irreducible 4-manifolds of complexity cc that are not doubles of 2-handlebodies. The paper explains that doubles of 2-handlebodies are expected to occur infinitely often for every cc, so excluding them is essential to this finiteness claim; the conjecture remains open.

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Bruno Martelli, “Four-manifolds with shadow-complexity zero”, arXiv:0909.0168 (2009).

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