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Exotic diffeomorphisms on $4$-manifolds with $b_2^+ = 2$

Geometric Topology 2024-09-12 v1

Abstract

While the exotic diffeomorphisms turned out to be very rich, we know much less about the b2+=2b^+_2 =2 case, as parameterized gauge-theoretic invariants are not well defined. In this paper we present a method (that is, comparing the winding number of parameter families) to find exotic diffeomorphisms on simply-connected smooth closed 44-manifolds with b2+=2b^+_2 =2, and as a result we obtain that 2CP2#10(CP2)2\mathbb{C}\mathbb{P}^2 \# 10 (-{\mathbb{C}\mathbb{P}^2}) admits exotic diffeomorphisms. This is currently the smallest known example of a closed 44-manifold that supports exotic diffeomorphisms.

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@article{arxiv.2409.07009,
  title  = {Exotic diffeomorphisms on $4$-manifolds with $b_2^+ = 2$},
  author = {Haochen Qiu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2409.07009},
  year   = {2024}
}

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9 pages, 3 figures

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