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Differentiable structures on punctured 4-manifolds (English)
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21 November 1994
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By a result of Quinn, any closed simply-connected 4-manifold becomes smoothable after removing a point. In this paper, the authors give sufficient conditions for such punctured 4-manifolds to have uncountably many differentiable structures. For example, they prove this result if the closed 4-manifold (not necessarily simply-connected) was smooth to begin with or if one introduces two punctures instead of one. This generalizes the famous construction of uncountably many differentiable structures on Euclidean 4-space (which is the punctured 4-sphere).
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Casson's invriant
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Rohling's invariant
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exotic structures
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punctured 4- manifold
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uncountably many differentiable structures
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