Bogomolov–Miyaoka–Yau inequality for four-manifolds with a Seiberg–Witten basic class

Let XX be a closed, connected, oriented, smooth four-dimensional manifold with b+(X)>1b^+(X)>1 and odd b+(X)b1(X)b^+(X)-b_1(X). A Seiberg–Witten basic class is a cohomology class associated with a spincspin^c structure having nonzero Seiberg–Witten invariant. Bogomolov–Miyaoka–Yau conjecture. If XX has a Seiberg–Witten basic class, then

c1(X)23c2(X).c_1(X)^2\leq 3c_2(X).

The conjecture is false when b+(X)=1b^+(X)=1 and c2(X)<0c_2(X)<0, so the stated hypotheses cannot be weakened in that direction.

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Primary source

Paul M. N. Feehan and Thomas G. Leness, “Almost Hermitian structures on moduli spaces of non-Abelian monopoles and applications to the topology of symplectic four-manifolds”, arXiv:2410.13809 (2025).

Additional references

3 papers in this index state this conjecture (2011–2024). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:2010.15789, arXiv:1101.3481.

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