Skip to content

On complex surfaces diffeomorphic to rational surfaces

Robert Friedman, Zhenbo Qin

alg-geomarXiv:alg-geom/9404010

Abstract

In this paper we prove that no complex surface of general type is diffeomorphic to a rational surface, thereby completing the smooth classification of rational surfaces and the proof of the Van de Ven conjecture on the smooth invariance of Kodaira dimension.

Create a lesson