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Atlas.GeometryOfManifolds.code.DonaldsonLefschetz

A blow-up of a smooth $4$-manifold $M$ at finitely many points, producing a new manifold $\hat M$ together with a smooth blow-down map $\pi : \hat M \to M$. The structure records the points blown up and the existence of local complex blow-up models around each exceptional set, where the blow-down fails to be a submersion.

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    The data witnessing that a $4$-manifold $\hat M$ admits a Lefschetz fibration to a compact $2$-manifold $B$ (the base, which is $S^2$ for Donaldson's theorem), together with a closed nondegenerate area form on the base.

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      Donaldson's Theorem 3 (axiomatic form). Every compact symplectic $4$-manifold $(M, \omega)$ admits a blow-up $\hat M$ at finitely many points such that $\hat M$ carries a Lefschetz fibration over $S^2$.

      Donaldson's Theorem 3. A compact symplectic $4$-manifold $(M, \omega)$ becomes, after blowing up finitely many points, the total space of a Lefschetz fibration over $S^2$.