Symplectic rational blowdown of a minus-four sphere

ID: symplectic-rational-blowdown-of-a-minus-four-sphere

A symplectic sphere of self-intersection can be rationally blown down by taking the symplectic sum with along the sphere and a smooth conic of self-intersection . Equivalently, its disk-bundle neighborhood is replaced by the rational ball whose boundary is the lens space .

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