Intersection Forms of Spin Four-Manifolds

2012/11/29 by Stefan Bauer, Bauer, Stefan A.
Computer Science · Mathematics · #55N91 #57R15 #57R57 #Computational Geometry and Mesh Generation #FOS: Mathematics #Geometric Topology (math.GT) #Geometric and Algebraic Topology #Topological and Geometric Data Analysis

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1211.7092

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Abstract

The second Betti number of a smooth, closed, connected and simply connected, four-dimensional spin manifold is greater or equal 11/8 times the abolute value of its signature.

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