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

Let XX and YY be closed orientable 44-manifolds. Say that XX 1-dominates YY if there is a continuous map f:XYf: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.

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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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