The strengthened Euler characteristic-signature inequality conjecture for aspherical 4-manifolds

Let X4X^{4} be a closed, oriented, aspherical 44-manifold. Write χ(X4)\chi(X^{4}) for its Euler characteristic and σ(X4)\sigma(X^{4}) for its signature. Strengthened Euler characteristic-signature inequality conjecture. Then

χ(X4)3σ(X4).\chi(X^{4})\ge 3\left|\sigma(X^{4})\right|.

This is a stronger proposed geography constraint than the inequality χ(X4)σ(X4)\chi(X^{4})\ge |\sigma(X^{4})|; it is known for surface bundles over surfaces by a result of Hamenstädt, but remains open for general closed, oriented, aspherical 44-manifolds.

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Allan L. Edmonds, “Aspherical 4-manifolds of odd Euler characteristic”, arXiv:1710.06345 (2017).

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