Exotic symplectic structures on $S^3{\times}R$

  • Cho, Yong-Seoung (Department of Mathematics, Ewha Womans University, Seoul 120-750) ;
  • Yoon, Jin-Yue (Department of Mathematics, Ewha Womans University, Seoul 120-750)
  • Published : 1998.02.01

Abstract

We construct exotic symplectic structures on $S^3 \times R$ which is obtained by the symplectic sum of two smooth symplectic four-manifolds with exotic symplectic structures, each of which is diffeomorphic to $R^4$.

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