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8 papers
Will we ever classify simply-connected smooth 4-manifolds?
Ronald J. Stern
These notes are adapted from two talks given at the 2004 Clay Institute Summer School on Floer homology, gauge theory, and low dimensional topology at the Alfred Renyi Institute. W…
Double node neighborhoods and families of simply connected 4-manifolds with b^+=1
Ronald Fintushel, Ronald J. Stern
We introduce a new technique that is used to show that the complex projective plane blown up at 6, 7, or 8 points has infinitely many distinct smooth structures. None of these smoo…
Tori in symplectic 4-manifolds
Ronald Fintushel, Ronald J Stern
We study the question of how many embedded symplectic or Lagrangian tori can represent the same homology class in a simply connected symplectic 4-manifold.
Families of Simply Connected 4-Manifolds with the Same Seiberg-Witten Invariants
Ronald Fintushel, Ronald J. Stern
This article presents the constructions of new infinite families of smooth 4-manifolds with the property that any two manifolds in the same family are homeomorphic and, from their…
Nonsymplectic 4-Manifolds with One Basic Class
Ronald Fintushel, Ronald J. Stern
It is the purpose of this paper to construct families of examples of nonsymplectic 4-manifolds which (up to sign) have just one Seiberg-Witten basic class.
Constructions of Smooth 4-Manifolds
Ronald Fintushel, Ronald J. Stern
We describe a collection of constructions which illustrate a panoply of ``exotic'' smooth 4-manifolds.