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Abstract for MSRI Preprint 1997-015

A fake smooth $\mathbf{CP}^2\#\mathbf{RP}^4$

Daniel Ruberman and Ronald J. Stern

We show that the manifold $*\mathbf{RP}^4 \# *\mathbf{CP}^2$, which is homotopy equivalent but not homeomorphic to $\mathbf{RP}^4 \# \mathbf{CP}^2$, is in fact smoothable.