Double points and the proper transform in symplectic geometry (Q1917369)

In his book, `Partial differential relations' (1986; Zbl 0651.53001) \textit{M. Gromov} introduced the symplectic analogue of the complex analytic operations of blowing up and blowing down. Gromov proposed, in \(\S 3.4.4 (D)\) of his book, a program for resolving the singularities of symplectic immersions with symplectic crossings via blowing up, in exact analogue with the well known complex analytic technique. The purpose of this note is to show that this program cannot work. We show that there are symplectically immersed surfaces in symplectic 4-manifolds which do not have a symplectically embedded proper transform in any blow up of the four manifold.