Foliation adjunction inequality for taut foliations on four-manifolds
Let be a four-manifold with a taut foliation , and let be an almost-complex structure induced by . For an embedded surface in without sphere components, write for its Euler characteristic, for its self-intersection, and for the evaluation of the first Chern class on . Foliation adjunction conjecture. For every such surface , one has
This would generalize P. Kronheimer's theorem for products , where the bound is obtained from a taut foliation on the closed irreducible three-manifold . The source presents this as a proposed generalization of that result; its resolution is not specified here.
References
Primary source
Alexandru Scorpan, “A quick survey of foliations on 4-manifolds”, arXiv:math/0302323 (2003).
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