Finiteness conjecture for irreducible 4-manifolds of fixed complexity
Finiteness conjecture for irreducible 4-manifolds of fixed complexity
Let be a natural number, and let a complexity- irreducible 4-manifold mean an irreducible 4-manifold having complexity . Finiteness conjecture. For every natural number , there are only finitely many irreducible 4-manifolds of complexity that are not doubles of 2-handlebodies. The paper explains that doubles of 2-handlebodies are expected to occur infinitely often for every , 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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