0-dimensional moduli space of stable rank 2 bundles and differentiable structures on regular elliptic surfaces (Q1335294)

The authors have constructed infinitely many distinct differential structures on many regular elliptic surface with positive geometric genus. By using Donaldson invariants, many examples of four-manifolds admitting infinitely many smooth structures are known. In this paper, the authors find such examples by a different construction: They take a pair of elliptic surfaces where each has a tubular neighborhood of one fiber removed. They then glue them together along the boundary in a nontrivial way. For infinitely many choices of such pairs the resulting four- manifolds are homeomorphic but not diffeomorphic. The later is proved using the Donaldson invariants associated to the 0-dimensional moduli space of ASD connections. The Gompf-Mrowka's work in calculating the invariants of manifolds resulting from gluing two manifolds along their boundary is used [cf. \textit{R. E. Gompf} and \textit{T. S. Mrowka}, Ann. Math., II. Ser. 138, No. 1, 61-111 (1993; Zbl 0805.57012)].