Finiteness conjecture for degree-one maps to four-manifolds with finite fundamental group

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Let XX and YY be closed orientable 44-manifolds. Say that XX 1-dominates YY if there is a continuous map f:X→Yf:X\to Y of degree one.

Finiteness conjecture. Every closed orientable 44-manifold XX 1-dominates at most finitely many closed orientable 44-manifolds YY with finite π1(Y)\pi_1(Y), up to homeomorphism.

The paper establishes this finiteness when the fundamental group is finite abelian and reduces the general finite-group case to a proposition stated immediately afterward. The supplied text does not establish the conjecture in full.

References

Primary source

Yang Su, Shicheng Wang and Zhongzi Wang, “Degree one maps on four manifolds with cyclic fundamental groups”, arXiv:2110.11717 (2022).

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