The equivalent genus-function conjecture for the exotic four-manifolds
Let be the four-manifold constructed in the paper, and let be the infinite family of exotic four-manifolds obtained by replacing the final Luttinger surgery with torus surgery of coefficient . For a smooth four-manifold , write for its genus function, assigning to each homology class the minimal genus of an embedded representative. The equivalent genus-function conjecture. The genus functions of the exotic four-manifolds are all equivalent to . The constructions establish equality for the homology classes for which the genus function has been identified, while the full equivalence remains open because the genus function is not known on all classes.
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András I. Stipsicz and Zoltán Szabó, “On the minimal genus problem in four-manifolds”, arXiv:2307.04202 (2023).
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