The Weyl functional on 4-manifolds of positive Yamabe invariant (Q824391)

In the present article the author shows that on every closed oriented Riemannian 4-manifold \((M, g)\) with positive scalar curvature, the following inequality is valid: \[ \int_W |W_g^+|^2d\mu _g\ge 2\pi^2(2\chi(M)+3\tau\mu(M)-\frac{8\pi^2}{|\pi_1(M)|}, \] where \(W_g^+\), \(\chi(M)\) and \(\tau(M)\), respectively, denote the self-dual Weyl tensor of \(g\), the Euler characteristic and the signature of \(M\). This generalizes \textit{M. J. Gursky}'s inequality [Ann. Math. (2) 148, No. 1, 315--337 (1998; Zbl 0949.53025)], for the case of \(b_1(M) > 0\) in a much simpler way. He also extends all such lower bounds of the Weyl functional to 4-orbifolds including Gursky's inequalities for the case of \(b^+_2 (M) > 0\) or \(\delta _g W_g^+=0\) and obtain topological obstructions to the existence of self-dual orbifold metrics of positive scalar curvature.