The minimal conjecture for four-manifolds

A smooth, closed and oriented 44-manifold is a smooth manifold of dimension four with the stated properties. A symplectic manifold is a smooth manifold equipped with a symplectic form, and a definite intersection form is an intersection form that is either positive or negative definite. A connected sum is formed by deleting balls and gluing along the resulting 33-sphere boundaries. The minimal conjecture. Every smooth, closed and oriented 44-manifold is the connected sum of symplectic manifolds, with both the symplectic and the opposite orientations allowed, and of some manifolds with definite intersection forms. The claim was proposed as a natural extension of the simply connected statement to non-simply-connected manifolds, but the source says that it is false and gives no replacement conjecture.

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D. Kotschick, “On irreducible four–manifolds”, arXiv:alg-geom/9504012 (1995).

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