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Surgery along star-shaped plumbings and exotic smooth structures on $4$–manifolds

Çağri Karakurt and Laura Starkston

Algebraic & Geometric Topology 16 (2016) 1585–1635

DOI: 10.2140/agt.2016.16.1585

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