Exotic surfaces

Publication date 23 November 2022

Abstract: We construct the first exotic

by means of rational blowdowns. Similarly, we construct the first exotic

for

b^{-} = 9, 8, 7

. All of them are minimal and symplectic, as they are produced from projective surfaces

W

with Wahl singularities, and

K_{W}

big and nef. In more generality, we elaborate on the problem of finding exotic

from these Koll'ar--Shepherd-Barron--Alexeev surfaces

W

, obtaining explicit geometric obstructions.

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