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We discuss closed symplectic 4-manifolds which admit full symplectic packings by N equal balls for large N's. We give a homological criterion for recognizing such manifolds. As a corollary we prove that \( {\Bbb C} P^2 \) can be fully packed by N equal balls for every \( N \geq 9 \).
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Submitted: June 1996, final version: October 1996
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Biran, P. Symplectic Packing in Dimension 4. GAFA, Geom. funct. anal. 7, 420–437 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1007/s000390050014
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