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arxiv: 1207.0684 · v2 · pith:II5YDSCFnew · submitted 2012-07-03 · 🧮 math.GT · math.SG

Lantern substitution and new symplectic 4-manifolds with {b₂}⁺ = 3

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Motivated by the construction of H. Endo and Y. Gurtas, changing a positive relator in Dehn twist generators of the mapping class group by using lantern substitutions, we show that 4-manifold $K3#2\CPb$ equipped with the genus two Lefschetz fibration can be rationally blown down along six disjoint copies of the configuration $C_2$. We compute the Seiberg-Witten invariants of the resulting symplectic 4-manifold, and show that it is symplectically minimal. Using our example, we also construct an infinite family of pairwise non-diffeomorphic irreducible symplectic and non-symplectic 4-manifolds homeomorphic to $M = 3\CP# (19-k)\CPb$ for $1 \leq k \leq 4$.

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