Exotic Smooth Structures on Small 4-Manifolds

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.

11 pages

References in corpus (1)

• Minimality and irreducibility of symplectic four-manifolds