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Using the G-monopole invariant, we shall show that any anti-holomorphic involution on a closed symplectic 4-manifold is not diffeomorphic to any holomorphic involution. As a corollary, we shall give a way to construct exotic smooth structures.
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Ishida, M. Exotic involutions on symplectic 4-manifolds and G-monopole invariants . GAFA, Geom. funct. anal. 10, 1477–1486 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1007/PL00001657
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/PL00001657