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Item Generalized complex structures on 4-manifolds(2013-05) Chen, HaojieWe study the existence of generalized complex structures on closed smooth fourmanifolds in this thesis. We first prove an integrability theorem of generalized complex structures in terms of almost bihermitian structures. After reviewing the results of type zero and type two generalized complex structures, we prove the necessary and sufficient topological conditions for the existence of type one generalized complex structures on compact four-manifolds. We also obtain a nonexistence result of T2-invariant untwisted generalized complex structures with mixed types on the four torus T4. Finally, we prove a result about finite group actions on tamed almost complex four-manifolds.Item New Exotic Symplectic 4-Manifolds with Nonnegative Signatures and Exotic Smooth Structures on Small 4-Manifolds(2018-08) Sakalli, SumeyraThe focus of this thesis is twofold. First one is the geography problem of symplectic and smooth 4-manifolds with nonnegative signatures. We construct new non-spin, irreducible, symplectic and smooth 4-manifolds with nonnegative signatures, with more than one smooth structures and small topology. These manifolds are interesting with respect to the symplectic and smooth geography problems. More specifically, we construct infinite families of smooth, closed, simply-connected, minimal, symplectic and non-symplectic 4-manifolds with nonnegative signatures that have the smallest Euler characteristics among the all known such manifolds, and with more than one smooth structures. The second focus of this thesis is the study of fibrations of complex curves of genus two and constructing exotic 4-manifolds with small Euler characteristics. In [93, 94] Namikawa and Ueno gave complete classification of all singular fibers in pencils of genus two curves, where each pencil is a family of complex curves of genus two over the 2-disc with one singular curve over the origin. They gave the list of all singular fibers arising in such families. In the constructions of singularities they used algebro-geometric techniques. In this thesis, we topologically construct certain singularity types in the Namikawa-Ueno’s list. More precisely, we find pencils of genus two curves in Hirzebruch surfaces and from which we obtain specific types of Namikawa-Ueno’s genus two singular fibers and sections, precisely. In addition to constructing these singularities topologically, we also introduce a deformation technique of the singular fibers of certain types Lefschetz fibrations over the 2-sphere. Then by using them and via symplectic surgeries, we build new exotic minimal symplectic 4-manifolds with small topology.