Kronheimer's adjunction inequality conjecture for taut foliations on 4-manifolds

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Let M4M^4 be a 44-manifold, let F{\mathcal F} be a taut foliation on MM, and let JFJ_{\mathcal F} be an almost-complex structure induced by F{\mathcal F}. For an embedded surface SS without sphere components, write χ(S)\chi(S) for its Euler characteristic, S⋅SS\cdot S for its self-intersection, and c1(JF)⋅Sc_1(J_{\mathcal F})\cdot S for the pairing with the first Chern class. Kronheimer's conjecture. For every such surface SS, one has

χ(S)+S⋅S≤c1(JF)⋅S.\chi(S)+S\cdot S\leq c_1(J_{\mathcal F})\cdot S.

This would generalize Kronheimer's theorem for product foliations on N3×S1N^3\times {\mathbb S}^1, where NN is a closed irreducible 33-manifold. The analogous statement for general taut foliations on 44-manifolds is presented as a possible generalization and is not established in the source.

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Alexandru Scorpan, “Existence of foliations on 4-manifolds”, arXiv:math/0302318 (2003).

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