Generic fibrations around multiple fibers (Q2339299)

Starting with the standard Seifert fibration \(S^1 \times D^2 \to D^2\) with a single \((p,1)\) exceptional fiber over the center of the disk \(D^2\), the author shows how to modify the interior of such a fibration, in order to produce a generic map \(S^1 \times D^2 \to D^2\) with indefinite fold singularities over \(p - 1\) disjoint circles, and each fiber over these circles consisting of \(p\) disjoint circles. Then, he crosses by \(S^1\) and shows how the resulting map \(T^2 \times D^2 \to D^2\) can be perturbed in the interior, to give a generic map \(g_p:T^2 \times D^2 \to D^2\) with indefinite fold singularities over \(2(p - 1)\) disjoint circles, and each fiber over such circles consisting of \(p\) disjoint tori. Both the above arguments are based on a suitable round handle decomposition of the domain. Given any generic torus fibration \(X \to \Sigma\) of a 4-manifold \(X\) over a surface \(\Sigma\), one can replace a neighborhood of a regular fiber \(T \subset X\) with a copy of the generic fibration \(g_p\), to give a new generic torus fibration \(X_p \to \Sigma\), where \(X_p\) is obtained from \(X\) by performing a multiplicity \(p\) integral torus surgery on \(T\). This is used to provide an explicit construction of broken Lefschetz fibrations on the elliptic surfaces \(E(n)_{p,q}\).