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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.
Symplectic surfaces in a fixed homology class
Ronald Fintushel, Ronald J. Stern
The purpose of this paper is to investigate the following problem: For a fixed 2-dimensional homology class K in a simply connected symplectic 4-manifold, up to smooth isotopy, how…