Symplectic fiber sum along a square-zero surface

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If symplectic four-manifolds contain symplectic copies of the same closed surface with self-intersection zero, their trivial symplectic normal bundles may be identified with reversed circle fibers. Removing the two tubular neighborhoods and gluing their boundaries gives a symplectic sum carrying a natural symplectic form.

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