Spin Lefschetz fibrations are abundant (Q6142481)

There are two main results in the paper under review. The first result is about spin Lefschetz fibrations with prescribed fundamental group. Namely, the authors prove that given any finitely presented group \(G\), there exists a spin symplectic Lefschetz fibration \(X \to S^2\) with \(\pi_1(X)\cong G\). The second result is about geography of spin Lefschetz fibrations. Here, the authors prove that any admissible lattice point in the symplectic geography plane below the Noether line can be realized by a simply connected spin Lefschetz fibration.