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Exotic Smooth Structures on Small 4-Manifolds

01/2007; DOI:doi:10.1007/s00222-008-0118-x
Source: arXiv

ABSTRACT Let M be either CP^2#3CP^2bar or 3CP^2#5CP^2bar. We construct the first example of a simply-connected symplectic 4-manifold that is homeomorphic but not diffeomorphic to M. Comment: 11 pages

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first example

homeomorphic

simply-connected symplectic 4-manifold