Abstract
It is known that the only Stein filling of the standard contact structure on S3 is B4. In this paper, we construct pairs of homeomorphic but not diffeomorphic simply connected compact Stein 4-manifolds, for any Betti number b2 ≥ 1; we do this by enlarging corks and plugs.
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