Reverse engineering small 4-manifolds
Geometric Topology
2014-10-01 v6 Symplectic Geometry
Abstract
We introduce a general procedure called `reverse engineering' that can be used to construct infinite families of smooth 4-manifolds in a given homeomorphism type. As one of the applications of this technique, we produce an infinite family of pairwise nondiffeomorphic 4-manifolds homeomorphic to CP^2#3(-CP^2).
Cite
@article{arxiv.math/0701846,
title = {Reverse engineering small 4-manifolds},
author = {Ronald Fintushel and B. Doug Park and Ronald J. Stern},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0701846},
year = {2014}
}
Comments
13 pages, 2 figures. This is the final version published in AGT, volume 7 (2007), pp. 2103-2116.