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Exotic smooth structures and symplectic forms on closed manifolds

Differential Geometry 2008-09-02 v2 Symplectic Geometry

Abstract

We give a short proof of the (known) result that there are no Kaehler structures on exotic tori. This yields a negative solution to a problem posed by Benson and Gordon. W discuss the symplectic version of the problem and analyze results which yield an evidence for the conjecture that there are no symplectic structures on exotic tori.

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@article{arxiv.math/0612586,
  title  = {Exotic smooth structures and symplectic forms on closed manifolds},
  author = {Boguslaw Hajduk and Aleksy Tralle},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0612586},
  year   = {2008}
}

Comments

AMSLaTeX, 16 pages, a new version. A survey of the symplectic version of the problem is added