Exotic non-orientable four-manifolds with prescribed fundamental group
Geometric Topology
2025-08-27 v1 Differential Geometry
Abstract
We show that any finitely presented group with an index two subgroup is realized as the fundamental group of a closed smooth non-orientable four-manifold that admits an exotic smooth structure, which is obtained by performing a Gluck twist. The orientation 2-covers of these four-manifolds are diffeomorphic. These two smooth structures remain inequivalent after adding arbitrarily many copies of the product of a pair of 2-spheres and stabilize after adding a single copy of the complex projective plane.
Keywords
Cite
@article{arxiv.2508.19142,
title = {Exotic non-orientable four-manifolds with prescribed fundamental group},
author = {Rafael Torres},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2508.19142},
year = {2025}
}
Comments
10 pages