Rational Blowdowns of Smooth 4-Manifolds
alg-geom
2008-02-03 v1 Algebraic Geometry
Abstract
In this paper we introduce a surgical procedure, called a rational blowdown, for a smooth 4-manifold X and determine how this procedure affects both the Donaldson and Seiberg-Witten invariants of X.
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@article{arxiv.alg-geom/9505018,
title = {Rational Blowdowns of Smooth 4-Manifolds},
author = {Ronald Fintushel and Ronald Stern},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:alg-geom/9505018},
year = {2008}
}
Comments
34 pages with 14 figures (author-supplied), AMSLaTeX