New symplectic 4-manifolds with \(b_+=1\) (Q2574156)

The aim of this paper is to construct a family of symplectic 4-manifolds which are not of Lefschetz type, have \(b_+=1\) and Kodaira dimension one. The existence of those manifolds was conjectured by \textit{D. McDuff} and \textit{D. Salomon} [Turk. J. Math. 20, 47--60 (1996; Zbl 0870.57023)]. The Seiberg-Witten invariant of those manifolds is a smooth invariant (the wall crossing number of Li and Liu vanishes). Furthermore they do not admit a complex structure, nor a metric of positive curvature. Such manifolds are nontrivial circle bundles over a three dimensional manifold, which in its turn is the mapping torus of a diffeomorphism of a surface of genus \(g\). For each \(g>1\) the author constructs a manifold with the required properties.