Donald's deformation conjecture for compact hypersymplectic 4-manifolds

Let XX be a compact 4-manifold and let ω=(ω1,ω2,ω3)\underline{\omega}=(\omega_1,\omega_2,\omega_3) be a hypersymplectic structure, meaning a triple of symplectic forms such that every non-zero linear combination is symplectic. Suppose that

ωiωj=2δij.\int \omega_i\wedge\omega_j=2\delta_{ij}.

Donald's conjecture. The structure ω\underline{\omega} can be deformed through cohomologous hypersymplectic structures to the triple of Kähler forms arising from a hyperkähler metric on XX. In particular, XX is diffeomorphic to T4\mathbb{T}^4 or a K3 surface. The paper proves this conjecture under the additional assumption that the initial structure is invariant under an effective S1S^1-action; without that assumption, the general conjecture remains open.

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Primary source

Joel Fine, Weiyong He and Chengjian Yao, “Hypersymplectic Structures Invariant Under an Effective Circle Action”, arXiv:2503.05272 (2025).

Additional references

2 papers in this index state this conjecture (2024–2025). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:2404.15016.

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