Cobordisms between symplectic fibrations (Q2364436)

The main goal of the paper under review is to investigate the question of existence of cobordisms between symplectic surface bundles over the circle. There are two main results of this sort: The first result is a rigidity statement for spherical fibrations. The authors prove that for a compact, connected symplectic \(4\)-manifold with boundary such that each boundary component is a symplectic fibration, if one of these surface bundles has spherical fibres, then so do all the others. The second result consists of two parts. The authors prove that any two symplectic fibrations of respective genus \(g_1,g_2>0\) are cobordant. In addition, they show that two spherical symplectic fibrations are cobordant if and only if they have the same fibre area.