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Section 3 of Atiyah's "On analytic surfaces with double points" — some questions

I have some questions about section 3 of Atiyah's "On analytic surfaces with double points," a short 9 page paper. Section 3 is all dedicated to proving lemma 4. Near the end of section 3, ...
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Blowing up $\mathbb{CP}^2$ nine times and exactness of symplectic form

Consider the (symplectic) blow up $\operatorname{Bl}_k(\mathbb{CP}^2)$ of $\mathbb{CP}^2$ at $k$ points. I have heard that for $k=1,2,\ldots,8$ the size of the balls been blown up can be choosen in ...
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Three-dimensional analogues of Hirzebruch surfaces

There are several ways of describing a Hirzebruch surface, for example as the blow-up of $\mathbb{P}^2$ at one point or as $\mathbb{P}(\mathcal{O}_{\mathbb{P}^1} \oplus \mathcal{O}_{\mathbb{P}^1}(n))$....
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Blow up at an ordinary double point

Let $X \subset \mathbb{C}^n$ be a complex complete intersection surface with only ordinary double point singularities. Let $o$ be such an ordinary double point. Let $\tilde{X}$ be the strict transform ...
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Blow up and critical points of the projection map

Denote $Z=V(x_1, \dots, x_{n-1}) \subset \mathbb{C}^n$ and let $Bl_Z(\mathbb{C}^n)$ be the blow up of $\mathbb{C}^n$ along $Z$ together with the projection map $\pi \colon Bl_Z(\mathbb{C}^n) \to \...
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Blow-up of a stratified space

Let $X$ be a smooth projective variety over $\mathbb{C}$, and $D_1, \ldots, D_n$ be a collection of simple normal crossing divisors. The divisors induce a stratification $\mathcal{T}_X$ of $X$. Let $...
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Relative canonical class of blowing-up a flag ideal

Let $X$ be a smooth complex projective variety of dimension $n$. Consider a flag ideal $I$ on $X\times \mathbb{P}^1$, namely, $$ I=I_0+I_1t+I_2t^2+\cdots+I_{N-1}t^{N-1}+(t^N)\,, $$ where $t$ is the ...
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Serre vanishing on one-point blow-ups

This is basically the last step of problem 5.3.7 in Huybrechts' Complex Geometry. Let $X$ be a complex manifold, $x \in X$, $E$ a holomorphic vector bundle on $X$ and $L$ a positive line bundle. ...
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Topology of the blowup of a surface at a point (connected sum)

Let $S$ be a complex algebraic (smooth) surface and $\widetilde{S}$ be the blowup of $S$ at a point $p\in S$. I would like to understand the statement: As a topological manifold, $\widetilde{S}$ ...
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Divisor class group on blowup of nodal surface

The following got no answer on mathstackexchange. I believe it not to be hard, but maybe it is a little specialized? All varieties will be over $\mathbb{C}$ and projective unless stated otherwise. ...
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What is the relation between holomorphic blow-up and symplectic blow-up?

McDuff has shown us exactly how the symplectic blow-up procedure along a symplectic submanifold affects the symplectic structure in the ambient space, i.e., if $\omega$ is the original symplectic form,...
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Blow-ups and cohomology

Let $W\subset \mathbb P^4$ be a smooth surface and let $X$ be the blow-up of $\mathbb P^4$ along $W$ with exceptional divisor $E$. By Griffiths-Harris, we have $$A^2(X)=A^2(\mathbb P^4)\oplus A^1(W),$$...
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Holomorphic vector fields on blow-ups of CP^2

On $X=CP^2\#k{(-CP^2)}$ in $k$ generic points, let $h^i=\dim H^i(T^{1,0}X)$, for $i\ge 0$. First, we know $h^i=0$ for $i\ge 2$. By Riemann–Roch formula, I obtain that $h^0-h^1 = 8-2k$. Would someone ...
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Blowing-up an ordinary double point, then contracting the exceptional locus to a curve

Let $X\subset\mathbb P^4$ a projective hypersurface with an ordinary double point at $o\in X$. Blow-up $\mathbb P^4$ at $o$ and let $E\simeq\mathbb P^3$ the exceptional divisor of this blow-up. ...
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$\mathbb{Z}/2$ is to $\mathbb{Z}/3$ as K3 is to what?

I'd like to know "what" (say, in the classification of complex surfaces) the following complex manifold $X$ is: Construction: Let $\Lambda$ be the hexagonal lattice in $\mathbb{C}$; that is, the ...