Definite four-manifolds with exotic smooth structures
Abstract
In this paper we study smooth structures on closed oriented 4-manifolds with fundamental group Z2 and definite intersection form. We construct infinitely many irreducible, smooth, oriented, closed, definite four-manifolds with fundamental group Z2 and second Betti number 1 and 2. As an application, we prove that when the second Betti number of a definite four-manifold with fundamental group Z2 is positive and it admits a smooth structure, then it admits infinitely many smooth structures.
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