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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.

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@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}
}

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