Singer's unobstructedness conjecture for anti-self-dual four-manifolds
Singer's unobstructedness conjecture for anti-self-dual four-manifolds
Let be an anti-self-dual conformal four-manifold. Its Yamabe invariant is the conformal invariant obtained by taking the supremum, over metrics in the conformal class, of the normalized total scalar curvature. The metric is unobstructed when , where is the cokernel of the anti-self-dual deformation complex.
Singer's conjecture. If the Yamabe invariant of is positive, then is unobstructed; equivalently,
This conjecture concerns the obstruction space for deformations of anti-self-dual conformal structures. Its validity would give a criterion ensuring that the moduli space is locally smooth, and it is attributed to Singer; the supplied source does not state a resolution.
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Primary source
A. Rod Gover and Matthew J. Gursky, “The Anti-Self-Dual Deformation Complex and a conjecture of Singer”, arXiv:2307.12432 (2023).
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