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In the following we intend to give a short overview of recent results concerning simply connected, oriented, closed, smooth 4-manifolds. Throughout this paper we will call a 4-dimensional manifold with the above four properties an admissible 4-manifold.
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Stipsicz, A. (1998). Geography of Irreducible 4-Manifolds. In: Balog, A., Katona, G.O.H., Recski, A., Sza’sz, D. (eds) European Congress of Mathematics. Progress in Mathematics, vol 169. Birkhäuser, Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0348-8898-1_14
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