The polyhedral symplectic cone conjecture for symplectic 4-manifolds

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Let WW be a symplectic 44-manifold. A polyhedral symplectic cone is a (possibly non-compact) polytope C⊂H2(W;R)C\subset H^2(W;\mathbb{R}) whose dual polytope lies in H2(W;R)H_2(W;\mathbb{R}).

Polyhedral symplectic cone conjecture. There exists a polyhedral symplectic cone CC with the following properties:

  1. The dual polytope in H2(W;R)H_2(W;\mathbb{R}) is compact, symmetric, convex and integral.
  2. There exist open top-dimensional faces F1,…,FsF_1,\dots,F_s of CC such that the symplectic cone coincides with all non-degenerate elements in the cone on F1,…,FsF_1,\dots,F_s.

This conjecture proposes that the symplectic cone of every symplectic 44-manifold has a structure analogous to the fibered cone of a 33-manifold. The source does not state a resolution, so the conjecture remains open.

References

Primary source

Stefan Friedl and Stefano Vidussi, “Construction of symplectic structures on 4-manifolds with a free circle action”, arXiv:1102.0821 (2011).

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