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Atlas.GeometryOfManifolds.code.FourManifoldsClassification

Rokhlin's theorem: the signature $\sigma(M)$ of a closed simply connected smooth $4$-manifold with even intersection form is divisible by $16$.

Donaldson's diagonalizability theorem (positive definite case): if the intersection form $Q$ of a closed simply connected smooth $4$-manifold is positive definite, then $Q$ is diagonalizable over $\mathbb{Z}$ (i.e. equivalent to the standard form $\mathrm{diag}(1,\ldots,1)$).

Donaldson's diagonalizability theorem (negative definite case): a negative definite intersection form on a closed simply connected smooth $4$-manifold is diagonalizable over $\mathbb{Z}$ (equivalent to $\mathrm{diag}(-1,\ldots,-1)$).

Freedman's classification: two closed simply connected topological $4$-manifolds with the same $b_2$, signature $\sigma$, and parity of the intersection form are homeomorphic.