In this paper, we introduce a construction of four dimensional symplectic manifolds which generalizes a construction of Gompf. We use this construction, which we call symplectic normal connect sum, to construct new examples of compact symplectic four manifolds. Z ‹‰ .
This paper has been published: Topology Vol. 33. No. 4. pp. 729-764, 1994.
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