Positive factorizations of mapping classes

DOI10.2140/AGT.2017.17.1527zbMath1439.57045arXiv1412.0352OpenAlexW2484041110WikidataQ114045635 ScholiaQ114045635MaRDI QIDQ2398828

Naoyuki Monden, Jeremy van Horn-Morris, Refik İnanç Baykur

Publication date: 21 August 2017

Published in: Algebraic \& Geometric Topology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In this article, we study the maximal length of positive Dehn twist factorizations of surface mapping classes. In connection to fundamental questions regarding the uniform topology of symplectic 4-manifolds and Stein fillings of contact 3-manifolds coming from the topology of supporting Lefschetz pencils and open books, we completely determine which boundary multitwists admit arbitrarily long positive Dehn twist factorizations along nonseparating curves, and which mapping class groups contain elements admitting such factorizations. Moreover, for every pair of positive integers g,n, we tell whether or not there exist genus-g Lefschetz pencils with n base points, and if there are, what the maximal Euler characteristic is whenever it is bounded above. We observe that only symplectic 4-manifolds of general type can attain arbitrarily large topology regardless of the genus and the number of base points of Lefschetz pencils on them.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1412.0352

zbMATH Keywords

symplectic manifoldsmapping class groupscontact manifoldsLefschetz fibrations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geometric group theory (20F65) Symplectic and contact topology in high or arbitrary dimension (57R17) Global theory of symplectic and contact manifolds (53D35) General geometric structures on low-dimensional manifolds (57M50)

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