Involutions on four-manifolds
Involutions on four-manifolds
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Andras Stipsicz, Alfred Renyi Institute of Mathematics
By finding fixed point free involutions on certain exotic simply connected four-manifolds with small Euler characteristic, we show that smooth definite four-manifolds with fundamental group Z/2Z and positive second Betti number admit infinitely many exotic structures. This is joint work with Zoltan Szabo