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A moduli space of exotic ℝ4'S

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2009

Robert E. Gompf
Robert E. Gompf
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The University of Texas, Austin, TX 78712, USA
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In 1982, the first exotic ℝ4 was discovered—a smooth manifold homeomorphic to ℝ4, but not diffeomorphic to it. The object shocked topologists by its open defiance of the rules of high-dimensional smoothing theory. The exotic ℝ4 was constructed by connecting the two powerful machines of Freedman [4] and Donaldson [2] to earlier work of Casson [1].

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Proceedings of the Edinburgh Mathematical Society , Volume 32 , Issue 2 , June 1989 , pp. 285 - 289
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Copyright © Edinburgh Mathematical Society 1989

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