Small Exotic 4-Manifolds

Abstract

In this article, we construct the first example of a simply connected minimal symplectic 4-manifold homeomorphic but not diffeomorphic to 3CP^2#7CP^2b. We also construct the first exotic symplectic structure on CP^2#5CP^2b.

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• The symplectic Thom conjecture

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• A simply connected surface of general type with p_g=0 and K^2=3