Donaldson's hyperkähler deformation conjecture for compact hypersymplectic 4-manifolds

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Let XX be a compact oriented 4-manifold, and let ω‾=(ω1,ω2,ω3)\underline{\omega}=(\omega_1,\omega_2,\omega_3) be a hypersymplectic structure, meaning a triple of closed 2-forms that spans a maximal positive-definite subspace of Λ2\Lambda^2 at every point. Suppose

∫Xωi∧ωj=δij.\int_X \omega_i\wedge\omega_j=\delta_{ij}.

Donaldson's conjecture. There exists a deformation of ω‾\underline{\omega} through cohomologous hypersymplectic structures to a hyperkähler triple. This conjecture asserts that, up to isotopy and under the stated normalization, hyperkähler triples are the only hypersymplectic structures on compact 4-manifolds; its general status remains open.

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Joel Fine and Chengjian Yao, “Hypersymplectic 4-manifolds, the G_2-Laplacian flow and extension assuming bounded scalar curvature”, arXiv:1704.07620 (2017).

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