Surgery on nullhomologous tori and simply connected 4-manifolds with b^+=1

Fintushel, Ronald; Stern, Ronald J.

Surgery on nullhomologous tori and simply connected 4-manifolds with b^+=1

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For 5 <= k <= 8 we show that the infinite family of exotic smooth structures on CP^2# k(-CP^2) can be achieved by 1/n - surgeries on a single embedded nullhomologous torus in a manifold R_k which is homeomorphic to CP^2# k(-CP^2).
16 pages, 9 figures