Symplectic rational blow-ups on rational 4-manifolds

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Abstract: We prove that if a symplectic 4-manifold X becomes a rational 4-manifold after applying rational blow-down surgery, then the symplectic 4-manifold X is originally rational. That is, a symplectic rational blow-up of a rational symplectic 4-manifold is again rational. As an application we show that a degeneration of a family of smooth rational complex surfaces is a rational surface if the degeneration has at most quotient surface singularities, which generalizes slightly a classical result of [Bu{a}descu, 1986] in algebraic geometry under a mild additional condition.










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