Fine's positive definite connection conjecture

Let MM be a closed 44-manifold. A connection on an associated sphere bundle is called positive definite when its induced symplectic structure has fibre normal degree +2+2. Fine's positive definite connection conjecture. If MM admits a positive definite connection, then MM is diffeomorphic to either S4S^4 or CP2\overline{\mathbb{C\mathbb{P}}}^{2}. 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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