On a Hitchin-Thorpe inequality for manifolds with foliated boundaries (Q2398256)

If \(M\) is a closed oriented 4-dimensional Einstein manifold, then the famous Hitchin-Thorpe inequality says that \[ \chi(M)\geq \frac{3}{2}|\tau(M)|, \] where \(\chi(M)\) is the Euler characteristic and \(\tau(M)\) is the (Hirzebruch) signature. In 2007, Dai and Wei extended this inequality to the case of a noncompact manifold which has fibred geometry at infinity. In this paper, the author extends this inequality to the case where the manifolds have foliated geometry at infinity and presents examples.