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Nonsmoothable involutions on spin 4-manifolds

Geometric Topology 2010-11-02 v1

Abstract

Let XX be a closed, simply-connected, smooth, spin 4-manifold whose intersection form is isomorphic to n(E8)mHn(-E_8)\bigoplus mH, where HH is the hyperbolic form. In this paper, we prove that for nn such that n2 mod 4n\equiv 2 ~{\rm mod} ~4, there exists a locally linear pseudofree Z2\mathbb{Z}_2-action on XX which is nonsmoothable with respect to any possible smooth structure on XX.

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@article{arxiv.1011.0116,
  title  = {Nonsmoothable involutions on spin 4-manifolds},
  author = {Changtao Xue and Ximin Liu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1011.0116},
  year   = {2010}
}

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