The Global Spherical Shell conjecture. Every connected minimal compact complex surface of class VII with $b_2\gt 0$ contains a global spherical shell, proving the positive-b2 Global Spherical Shell conjecture. Such a shell is a holomorphically embedded neighborhood of the standard three-sphere in $\mathbb C^2\setminus\{0\}$ whose complement is connected.
released 2026-09-24 | 3 theorems · 17 lemmas · 32 proofs · 19,730 words |
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We prove the Global Spherical Shell conjecture: every connected minimal compact complex surface of class VII with positive second Betti number contains a global spherical shell. This is a holomorphically embedded neighborhood of the standard three-sphere in $\mathbb C^2\setminus\{0\}$ whose complement is connected.