Mazur manifolds and symplectic structures
Geometric Topology
2026-05-15 v1 Symplectic Geometry
Abstract
We use the Heegaard Floer homology cobordism maps to obstruct the existence of a symplectic structure on the Akbulut-Kirby Mazur manifolds whose boundary is a Brieskorn sphere among and . Furthermore, we describe how our results imply the existence of exotic pairs of simply connected 4-manifolds, with definite intersection form, whose boundary is .
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@article{arxiv.2605.15095,
title = {Mazur manifolds and symplectic structures},
author = {Alberto Cavallo},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2605.15095},
year = {2026}
}