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Exotic smooth structures on $CP^2#5{\bar CP^2}$

Geometric Topology 2007-05-23 v3 Symplectic Geometry

Abstract

Motivated by a construction of Fintushel and Stern, we show that the topological 4--manifold CP^2#5{\bar CP^2} supports infinitely many distinct smooth structures.

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@article{arxiv.math/0412216,
  title  = {Exotic smooth structures on $CP^2#5{\bar CP^2}$},
  author = {Jongil Park and Andras I Stipsicz and Zoltan Szabo},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0412216},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

14 pages, 4 figures; details of computation of Seiberg-Witten invariants is added