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The first author was partially supported NSF Grant DMS9102522 and the second author by NSF Grant DMS9002517
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Fintushel, R., Stern, R.J. Surgery in cusp neighborhoods and the geography of irreducible 4-manifolds. Invent Math 117, 455–523 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01232253
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