Exotic definite four-manifolds with non-cyclic fundamental group
We construct infinitely many pairwise non-diffeomorphic irreducible smooth structures on a definite <inline-formula content-type="math/mathml"> <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="4"> <mml:semantics> <mml:mn>4</mml:mn> <mml:annotation encoding="application/x-tex">4</mml:annotation> </mml:semantics> </mml:math> </inline-formula> -manifold with non-cyclic fundamental group <inline-formula content-type="math/mathml"> <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="double-struck upper Z slash 2 times double-struck upper Z slash 2"> <mml:semantics> <mml:mrow> <mml:mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mml:mi mathvariant="double-struck">Z</mml:mi> </mml:mrow> <mml:mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mml:mo>/</mml:mo> </mml:mrow> <mml:mn>2</mml:mn> <mml:mo> × </mml:mo> <mml:mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mml:mi mathvariant="double-struck">Z</mml:mi> </mml:mrow> <mml:mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mml:mo>/</mml:mo> </mml:mrow> <mml:mn>2</mml:mn> </mml:mrow> <mml:annotation encoding="application/x-tex">\mathbb {Z}/2\times \mathbb {Z}/2</mml:annotation> </mml:semantics> </mml:math> </inline-formula> .
Authors
- B. Park
- Patrick Naylor
- R. Adron Harris (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8870-5950)
Institutions
- University of Waterloo (CA)
- McMaster University (CA)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society
- Published
- 2025-11-25
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1090/proc/17341
- Primary Topic
- Geometric and Algebraic Topology
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00