Trisected 11/8-conjecture

Let XX be a four-manifold admitting a (g,0)(g,0)-trisection, and suppose its intersection form is even and indefinite. Write σ(X)\sigma(X) for the signature of XX.

Trisected 11/8-conjecture. One has

g118σ(X).g\geq \frac{11}{8}\sigma(X).

This is a trisection analogue of the classical 11/811/8-conjecture, which predicts b2(X)118σ(X)b_2(X)\geq \frac{11}{8}\sigma(X) for the relevant smooth, closed, oriented, simply-connected four-manifolds. Its status is open.

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Primary source

Peter Lambert-Cole and Jeffrey Meier, “Bridge trisections in rational surfaces”, arXiv:1810.10450 (2018).

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