Small exotic 4-manifolds from lines and quadrics in CP^2

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Abstract: We construct potentially new manifolds homeomorphic but not diffeomorphic to and via rational blowdown surgery along certain 4-valent plumbing graphs. This way all the graph classes from cite{weighted} have a representative which admits a rational blowdown leading to an exotic manifold. We emphasize the simplicity of the constructions which boils down to finding a good configuration of complex lines and quadrics in mathbbCP2, and deciding which intersections to blow up.


The present paper faces the interesting problem of detecting \textit{small exotic \(4\)-manifolds}, i.e. \(4\)-manifolds with small Euler characteristic and signature, homeomorphic but not diffeomorphic to some standard \(4\)-manifolds. \par In particular, the author constructs ``potentially new manifolds homeomorphic but not diffeomorphic to \(\mathbb{CP}^2 \# 8 \overline{\mathbb{CP}^2}\) and \(\mathbb{CP}^2 \# 9 \overline{\mathbb{CP}^2}\) by means of the so called \textit{rational blowdown surgery}, introduced by \textit{R. Fintushel} and \textit{R. J. Stern} [J. Differ. Geom. 46, No. 2, 181--235 (1997; Zbl 08l96.57022)].\par This general technique is applied in an original way, starting with a good configuration of complex lines and quadrics in \(\mathbb{CP}^2\), and using particular plumbings from the graph classes identified as \(\mathcal{B}^4\) and \(\mathcal{C}^4\) by \textit{M. Bhupal} and \textit{A. I. Stipsicz} [Am. J. Math. 133, No. 5, 1259--1297 (2011; Zbl 1227.32033)]. \par Since the first graph class in the quoted paper, identified as \(\mathcal{A}^4\), was already known to produce exotic manifolds via rational blowdown, this property is now proved to hold for all the graph classes from that paper.



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