Simply connected symplectic 4-manifolds with \(b_2^+ = 1\) and \(c_1^2 = 2\) (Q1770275): Difference between revisions

The author shows that there is a simply connected closed manifold homeomorphic to but not diffeomorphic to \(\mathbb CP^{2}\#7\overline{\mathbb CP} ^{2}.\) This shows that \(\mathbb CP^{2}\#8\overline{\mathbb CP}^{2}\)has at least three distinct smooth structures.