Matsumoto's 11/8-conjecture for spin 4-manifold intersection forms

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Let pp be a nonnegative integer and qq a natural number. The form

2pE8q(0110)2pE_{8}\oplus q\begin{pmatrix}0&1\\1&0\end{pmatrix}

can be realized as the intersection form of a closed smooth spin 44-manifold. Matsumoto's 11/8-conjecture. The form can be realized if and only if q3pq\geq 3p. 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 K3K3 and S2×S2S^{2}\times S^{2}, 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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