Rational Blowdowns of Smooth 4-Manifolds

Abstract

In this paper we introduce a surgical procedure, called a rational blowdown, for a smooth 4-manifold X and determine how this procedure affects both the Donaldson and Seiberg-Witten invariants of X.

34 pages with 14 figures (author-supplied), AMSLaTeX

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