On Stein rational balls smoothly but not symplectically embedded in CP^2

Abstract

We extend recent work of Brendan Owens by constructing a doubly infinite family of Stein rational homology balls which can be smoothly but not symplectically embedded in CP^2.

9 pages, 2 figures, small changes. To appear in the Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society

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