English

Small exotic 4-manifolds from lines and quadrics in $\mathbb{CP}^{2}$

Geometric Topology 2019-05-01 v1

Abstract

We construct potentially new manifolds homeomorphic but not diffeomorphic to CP2#8CP2\mathbb{CP}^{2} \# 8 \overline{\mathbb{CP}^{2}} and CP2#9CP2\mathbb{CP}^{2} \# 9 \overline{\mathbb{CP}^{2}} via rational blowdown surgery along certain 44-valent plumbing graphs. This way all the graph classes from \cite{weighted} have a representative which admits a rational blowdown leading to an exotic manifold. We emphasize the simplicity of the constructions which boils down to finding a good configuration of complex lines and quadrics in CP2\mathbb{CP}^{2}, and deciding which intersections to blow up.

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@article{arxiv.1904.12902,
  title  = {Small exotic 4-manifolds from lines and quadrics in $\mathbb{CP}^{2}$},
  author = {Stefan Mihajlović},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1904.12902},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

19 pages, 7 figures. Comments welcome!