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Author(s): Shuguang Wang
Journal: Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 125 (1997), 287-292.
MSC (1991): Primary 57R55, 57R57, 57N13
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Abstract: It is shown that the quotients of a complex surface under free holomorphic and anti-holomorphic involutions are homeomorphic but not diffeomorphic. This gives a way to construct exotic smooth structures on some complex surfaces.

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Shuguang Wang
Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri 65211
Email: sw@wang.cs.missouri.edu

DOI: 10.1090/S0002-9939-97-03641-1
PII: S 0002-9939(97)03641-1
Received by editor(s): July 1, 1995
Additional Notes: Work supported by the Research Board grant of the University of Missouri
Communicated by: Ronald Stern
Copyright of article: Copyright 1997, American Mathematical Society

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