Gromov–Lück inequality for closed aspherical 4-manifolds
Let be a closed, oriented, aspherical -manifold, and let denote its signature. Gromov–Lück inequality. One has
This inequality is a refined form of the Hopf problem on the sign of the Euler characteristic of closed aspherical -manifolds, motivated by the Singer conjecture on the vanishing of -Betti numbers. Its status is not resolved in the supplied source context.
References
Primary source
Luca F. Di Cerbo, “A rigidity theorem for Einstein 4-manifolds with sectional curvature of a fixed sign, and its consequences”, arXiv:2503.09570 (2026).
Additional references
2 papers in this index state this conjecture (2023–2025). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:2311.10226.
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