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Rational blow-downs and smoothings of surface singularities

Andras I. Stipsicz, Zoltan Szabo, Jonathan Wahl

math.GTarXiv:math/0611157

Abstract

In this paper we give a necessary combinatorial condition for a negative--definite plumbing tree to be suitable for rational blow--down, or to be the graph of a complex surface singularity which admits a rational homology disk smoothing. New examples of surface singularities with rational homology disk smoothings are also presented; these include singularities with resolution graph having valency four nodes.

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