Fine's positive definite connection conjecture
Fine's positive definite connection conjecture
Let be a closed -manifold. A connection on an associated sphere bundle is called positive definite when its induced symplectic structure has fibre normal degree . Fine's positive definite connection conjecture. If admits a positive definite connection, then is diffeomorphic to either or . The conjecture first appeared in Fine's work and remains completely open; it concerns the classification of four-manifolds carrying such connections.
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Joel Fine and Dmitri Panov, “Circle-invariant fat bundles and symplectic Fano 6-manifolds”, arXiv:1407.0840 (2014).
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