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    Gang Tian

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Seidel, P. (2008). Lectures on Four-Dimensional Dehn Twists. In: Catanese, F., Tian, G. (eds) Symplectic 4-Manifolds and Algebraic Surfaces. Lecture Notes in Mathematics, vol 1938. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-78279-7_4

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