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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2003 iii Paper 17 4 b Solution by
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True. Use the normalization in which the blowup weight is the area of an exceptional projective line, equivalently the capacity of the ball removed. The auxiliary volume formula for a point symplectic blowup in real dimension isIt applies to each successive blowup, irrespective of where the point is chosen. Geometrically the removed standard ball has volume , while its replacement divisor has zero -dimensional volume. If is the original symplectic volume, after equal-weight blowups the volume is . A nonempty closed symplectic manifold has strictly positive volume, soThis finite upper bound suffices; it does not assert that every number below the bound is realizable. A convention taking the weight to be the radius instead changes the fixed decrement to , with the same conclusion.
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