On sections of elliptic fibrations

Abstract: We find a new relation among right-handed Dehn twists in the mapping class group of a

k

-holed torus for

4 l e q k l e q 9

. This relation induces an elliptic Lefschetz pencil structure on the four-manifold cp

cpb

with

k

base points and twelve singular fibers. By blowing up the base points we get an elliptic Lefschetz fibration on the complex elliptic surface

E (1) =

cp

cpb

o S^{2}

with twelve singular fibers and

k

disjoint sections. More importantly we can locate these

k

sections in a Kirby diagram of the induced elliptic Lefschetz fibration. The

n

-th power of our relation gives an explicit description for

k

disjoint sections of the induced elliptic fibration on the complex elliptic surface

E (n) o S^{2}

for

n g e q 1

.

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