Resolution of the canonical fiber metrics for a Lefschetz fibration (Q1700318)

A Lefschetz fibration is a holomorphic map to a curve. These fibrations play an important role in the general theory of \(4\)-manifolds. In this paper Lefschetz fibrations with regular fibers with genus \(g>1\) are discussed, thus all the fibers are equipped with a unique metric of constant negative curvature \(-1\). Precisely the uniform behaviour of this family of metrics, near the singular fibers, is discussed and it is proved that, up to appropriate logarithmic resolutions of the total and parameters space to manifolds with corners, the resulting fiber metric is log-smooth. This result refines a previous result of \textit{K. Obitsu} and \textit{S. A. Wolpert} [Math. Ann. 341, No. 3, 685--706 (2008; Zbl 1146.30028)].