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Kirby diagram of the complement of a subhandlebody of a smooth closed 4-manifold
When the decomposition of $X$ has no 3-handles, this is often feasible. The trick is to turn the handle decomposition of $X$ upside down (see Example 5.5.5 in Gompf and Stipsicz's 4-manifolds and ...
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