Lantern relations and rational blowdowns

DOI10.1090/S0002-9939-09-10128-4zbMath1198.57017arXiv0808.0386MaRDI QIDQ3550587

Yusuf Z. Gurtas, Hisaaki Endo

Publication date: 31 March 2010

Published in: Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0808.0386

zbMATH Keywords

4-manifold; mapping class group; Lefschetz fibration; symplectic topology; rational blowdown; lantern relation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

57R17: Symplectic and contact topology in high or arbitrary dimension

20F38: Other groups related to topology or analysis

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