Exotic Structures on smooth 4-manifolds
Selman Akbulut

TL;DR
This paper surveys exotic smooth structures on 4-manifolds, focusing on cork structures and recent collaborative results, highlighting advances in understanding smooth topology in four dimensions.
Contribution
It provides a comprehensive overview of exotic structures and introduces recent collaborative findings related to cork structures in 4-manifolds.
Findings
Identification of new cork structures
Recent results on exotic smooth structures
Collaborative advances in 4-manifold topology
Abstract
A short survey of exotic smooth structutes on 4-manifolds is given with a special emphasis on the corresponding cork structures. Along the way we discuss some of the more recent results in this direction, obtained jointly with R.Matveyev, B.Ozbagci, C.Karakurt and K.Yasui.
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Taxonomy
TopicsGeometric and Algebraic Topology · Topological and Geometric Data Analysis · Geometric Analysis and Curvature Flows
