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Lantern substitution and new symplectic 4-manifolds with ${b_{2}}^{+} = 3$

Geometric Topology 2014-05-27 v2 Symplectic Geometry

Abstract

Motivated by the construction of H. Endo and Y. Gurtas, changing a positive relator in Dehn twist generators of the mapping class group by using lantern substitutions, we show that 4-manifold K3#2\CPb equipped with the genus two Lefschetz fibration can be rationally blown down along six disjoint copies of the configuration C2C_2. We compute the Seiberg-Witten invariants of the resulting symplectic 4-manifold, and show that it is symplectically minimal. Using our example, we also construct an infinite family of pairwise non-diffeomorphic irreducible symplectic and non-symplectic 4-manifolds homeomorphic to M = 3\CP# (19-k)\CPb for 1k41 \leq k \leq 4.

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@article{arxiv.1207.0684,
  title  = {Lantern substitution and new symplectic 4-manifolds with ${b_{2}}^{+} = 3$},
  author = {Anar Akhmedov and Jun-Yong Park},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1207.0684},
  year   = {2014}
}

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17 pages, 10 figures