Geometry & Topology Volume 8, issue 2 (2004)

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Constructing symplectic forms on 4–manifolds which vanish on circles

David T Gay and Robion Kirby

Geometry & Topology 8 (2004) 743–777

DOI: 10.2140/gt.2004.8.743

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