Geography and botany of irreducible non-spin symplectic 4-manifolds with abelian fundamental group

The geography and botany problems of irreducible non-spin symplectic 4-manifolds with a choice of fundamental group from {Zp, Zp ⊕ Zq,Z,Z ⊕ Zp,Z ⊕ Z} are studied by building upon the recent progress obtained on the simply connected realm. Results on the botany of simply connected 4-manifolds not available in the literature are extended. © Glasgow Mathematical Journal Trust 2013.