Pinwheels and nullhomologous surgery on 4-manifolds with b^+=1
Pinwheels and nullhomologous surgery on 4-manifolds with \(b^+=1\)
The motivating question for this paper is whether every simply-connected smooth 4-manifold \(X\) with \(\beta^+>0\) has infinitely many inequivalent smooth structures. This is known to be so when \(X\) is obtained from the complex projective plane by blowing up at least two points. The main innovation here is the notion of ``pinwheel structure, which is a generalization of ``\(k\)-fold symmetric sum, due to \textit{M. Symington} [``A new symplectic surgery: the \(3\)-fold sum, Topology Appl. 88, No. 1--2, 27--53 (1998; Zbl 0957.53045)]. This is used with the ``reverse engineering of the authors to show that if \(2\leq{k}\leq7\) and \(X=\mathbb{C}^2\#^k\overline{\mathbb{CP}^2}\) then such infinite families of smoothings can be be obtained by surgery on null-homologous tori in the standard smoothing of \(X\). (The surgery tori are Bing doubles of standard tori embedded in the pinwheel components.) The result holds also when \(k=9\), but technical difficulties inhibit further extension at present.
- A new symplectic surgery: the \(3\)-fold sum
- A symplectic manifold homeomorphic but not diffeomorphic to \(C\mathbb P^2 \# 3\overline{C\mathbb P}^2\)
- Actions of the Torus on 4-Manifolds. I
- Associativity properties of the symplectic sum
- Constructing infinitely many smooth structures on small 4-manifolds
- Double node neighborhoods and families of simply connected 4-manifolds with 𝑏⁺=1
- Exotic smooth structures on small 4-manifolds
- Exotic smooth structures on small 4-manifolds with odd signatures
- Knots, links, and 4-manifolds
- Luttinger surgery along Lagrangian tori and non-isotopy for singular symplectic plane curves
- More constraints on symplectic forms from Seiberg-Witten invariants
- Product formulas along T^3 for Seiberg-Witten invariants
- Rational blowdowns of smooth 4-manifolds
- Reverse engineering small 4-manifolds
- Surgery on nullhomologous tori and simply connected 4-manifolds withb+= 1
- Genus-3 Lefschetz fibrations and exotic 4-manifolds with b₂^+=3
- The Akhmedov-Park exotic \(\mathbb{CP}^2\# 2\overline{\mathbb{CP}}^2\)
- Bridge trisections in rational surfaces
- Small genus-$4$ Lefschetz fibrations on simply-connected $4$-manifolds
- Small Lefschetz fibrations and exotic 4-manifolds
- Geography and botany of irreducible non-spin symplectic 4-manifolds with abelian fundamental group
- Surgery on nullhomologous tori and simply connected 4-manifolds withb+= 1
- Topologically isotopic and smoothly inequivalent 2-spheres in simply connected 4-manifolds whose complement has a prescribed fundamental group
- Geography of symplectic Lefschetz fibrations and rational blowdowns
- Exotic surfaces
- Smoothly knotted and topologically unknotted nullhomologous surfaces in 4-manifolds
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