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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}
}

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34 pages with 14 figures (author-supplied), AMSLaTeX