• Bulletin of the Korean Mathematical Society
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• v.35 no.1
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• pp.1-12
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• 1998

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 $R^4$.

• Bulletin of the Korean Mathematical Society
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• v.47 no.5
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• pp.961-971
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• 2010

As an application of 'reverse engineering' technique introduced by R. Fintushel, D. Park and R. Stern [9], we present a simple way to construct an infinite family of exotic (2n+2l-1)$\mathbb{CP}^2#$(2n+4l-1)$\overline{\mathbb{CP}}^2$'s for all $n\;{\geq}\;0$, $l\;{\geq}\;1$.

• Journal of the Korean Mathematical Society
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• v.43 no.4
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• pp.691-701
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• 2006

In this paper, we construct a new exotic smooth 4-manifold X which is homeomorphic, but not diffeomorphic, to ${\mathbb{C}}\mathbb{P}^2{\sharp}13\overline{\mathbb{C}\mathbb{P}}^2$. Moreover the manifold X has vanishing Seiberg-Witten invariants for all $Spin^c$-structures of X and has no symplectic structure.