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A symplectic manifold homeomorphic but not diffeomorphic to $\mathbb{C`P}\mskip-2mu^2 \mskip1mu\#\mskip2mu 3{\mskip2mu\overline{\mskip-2mu\mathbb{C`P}\mskip-3mu}\mskip1mu}^2$

Scott Baldridge and Paul Kirk

Geometry & Topology 12 (2008) 919–940
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