Exotic Smooth Structures on Small 4-Manifolds

Abstract

Let M be either CP2#3CP2bar or 3CP2#5CP2bar. We construct the first example of a simply-connected symplectic 4-manifold that is homeomorphic but not diffeomorphic to M.

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