In mathematics, Dolgachev surfaces are certain
simply connected
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s, introduced by . They can be used to give examples of an infinite family of
homeomorphic simply connected
compact
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4-manifold
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s, no two of which are
diffeomorphic
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Definition
Given two ...
.
Properties
The
blowup
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of the
projective plane
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in 9 points can be realized as an elliptic fibration all of whose fibers are irreducible. A Dolgachev surface
is given by applying
logarithmic transformations of orders 2 and ''q'' to two smooth fibers for some
.
The Dolgachev surfaces are simply connected, and the bilinear form on the second
cohomology group
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is odd of
signature
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(so it is the
unimodular lattice
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). The
geometric genus
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Definition
The geometric genus can be defined for non-singular complex projective varieties and more generally for comp ...
is 0 and the
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Igor Shafarevich, in a seminar introduced an important numerical invariant of surfaces with the notation ''� ...
is 1.
found the first examples of homeomorphic but not diffeomorphic 4-manifolds
and
. More generally the surfaces
and
are always homeomorphic, but are not diffeomorphic unless
.
showed that the Dolgachev surface
has a
handlebody decomposition without 1- and 3-handles.
References
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*{{cite journal , authorlink = Simon Donaldson , last=Donaldson , first=Simon K. , title=Irrationality and the h-cobordism conjecture , url=http://projecteuclid.org/euclid.jdg/1214441179 , mr=892034 , year=1987 , journal=
Journal of Differential Geometry
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, volume=26 , issue=1 , pages=141–168, doi=10.4310/jdg/1214441179, doi-access=free
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