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Exotic smooth structures on 4-manifolds with zero signature

Geometric Topology 2015-05-19 v2 Symplectic Geometry

Abstract

For every integer k2k\geq 2, we construct infinite families of mutually nondiffeomorphic irreducible smooth structures on the topological 44-manifolds (2k1)(S2×S2)(2k-1)(S^2\times S^2) and (2k-1)(\CP#\CPb), the connected sums of 2k12k-1 copies of S2×S2S^2\times S^2 and \CP#\CPb.

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@article{arxiv.1006.0293,
  title  = {Exotic smooth structures on 4-manifolds with zero signature},
  author = {Anar Akhmedov and B. Doug Park},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1006.0293},
  year   = {2015}
}

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6 pages

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