On Park's exotic smooth four-manifolds

2004/11/10 by Peter Ozsváth, Peter Ozsvath, Zoltán Szabó +3 · 1 citation
Mathematics · #57R #FOS: Mathematics #Geometric Analysis and Curvature Flows #Geometric Topology (math.GT) #Geometric and Algebraic Topology #Homotopy and Cohomology in Algebraic Topology #math.GT #msc:57R

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.math/0411218

9 pages; 1 figure

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Abstract

In a recent paper, Park constructs certain exotic simply-connected four-manifolds with small Euler characteristics. Our aim here is to prove that the four-manifolds in his constructions are minimal.

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