On the affine chart of , the normalized Fubini-Study form is
Its integral over a projective line is . The Darboux theorem says that every point of a symplectic -manifold has local coordinates in which the form is .
To form the blowup , choose a symplectic embedding of the closed standard ball centered at , remove its interior, and collapse each characteristic Hopf circle of its boundary to a point. The boundary becomes the exceptional divisor , and the reduced form extends the old form outside the ball with every projective line in having area . This is the symplectic blowup of size . In real dimension four its volume is
Thus, whenever two different sizes are allowed, different give different total symplectic volumes and hence nonsymplectomorphic blowups.
The punctured area- sphere is symplectomorphic to the open unit disc. Consequently
for every . The bound is sharp. Given a hypothetical larger ball, choose a compatible almost complex structure agreeing with the pushed-forward standard structure on the ball. A standard J-holomorphic-curve result supplies a sphere in one ruling class through the ball center. Its total area is , while monotonicity inside the ball requires at least . Hence . Equivalently, the Gromov width of the monotone product of projective lines is