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On complex surfaces diffeomorphic to rational surfaces

arXiv:alg-geom/9404010 · doi:10.1007/BF01241123

Abstract

In this paper we prove that no complex surface of general type is diffeomorphic to a rational surface, thereby completing the smooth classification of rational surfaces and the proof of the Van de Ven conjecture on the smooth invariance of Kodaira dimension.

34 pages, AMS-TeX