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Rational Blowdowns of Smooth 4-Manifolds

Ronald Fintushel, Ronald Stern

alg-geomarXiv:alg-geom/9505018

Abstract

In this paper we introduce a surgical procedure, called a rational blowdown, for a smooth 4-manifold X and determine how this procedure affects both the Donaldson and Seiberg-Witten invariants of X.

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