English

Cork twisting exotic Stein 4-manifolds

Geometric Topology 2012-05-23 v2 Symplectic Geometry

Abstract

From any 4-dimensional oriented handlebody X without 3- and 4-handles and with b_2>0, we construct arbitrary many compact Stein 4-manifolds which are mutually homeomorphic but not diffeomorphic to each other, so that their topological invariants (their fundamental groups, homology groups, boundary homology groups, and intersection forms) coincide with those of X. We also discuss the induced contact structures on their boundaries. Furthermore, for any smooth 4-manifold pair (Z,Y) such that the complement Z-intY is a handlebody without 3- and 4-handles and with b_2>0, we construct arbitrary many exotic embeddings of a compact 4-manifold Y' into Z, such that Y' has the same topological invariants as Y.

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@article{arxiv.1102.3049,
  title  = {Cork twisting exotic Stein 4-manifolds},
  author = {Selman Akbulut and Kouichi Yasui},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1102.3049},
  year   = {2012}
}

Comments

30 pages, 24 figures, revised version, to appear in Journal of Differential Geometry

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