Matsumoto's 11/8-conjecture for spin 4-manifold intersection forms
Matsumoto's 11/8-conjecture for spin 4-manifold intersection forms
Let be a nonnegative integer and a natural number. The form
can be realized as the intersection form of a closed smooth spin -manifold. Matsumoto's 11/8-conjecture. The form can be realized if and only if . This is the final missing condition in the geography problem for even indefinite intersection forms; the “if” direction is realized by connected sums of copies of and , while the “only if” direction is the substantive open part, equivalent to the 11/8 inequality.
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Michael J. Hopkins, Jianfeng Lin, XiaoLin Danny Shi and Zhouli Xu, “Intersection Forms of Spin 4-Manifolds and the Pin(2)-Equivariant Mahowald Invariant”, arXiv:1812.04052 (2019).
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