Minimal number of singular fibers in a nonorientable Lefschetz fibration

DOI10.1007/S10711-021-00666-3MaRDI QIDQ2071808zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Sinem Onaran, Burak Ozbagci

Publication date 31 January 2022

Published in Geometriae Dedicata (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.08759

zbMATH Keywords

Lefschetz fibrationmapping class groupnonorientable \(4\)-manifold

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Fiber spaces in algebraic topology (55R05) 2-dimensional topology (including mapping class groups of surfaces, Teichmüller theory, curve complexes, etc.) (57K20) General topology of 4-manifolds (57K40) General geometric structures on low-dimensional manifolds (57M50)

Abstract: We show that there exists an admissible nonorientable genus $g$ Lefschetz fibration with only one singular fiber over a closed orientable surface of genus $h$ if and only if $ggeq4$ and $hgeq1$.

Review text

Let \(X\) be a closed nonorientable 4-manifold, and \(\Sigma\) a closed orientable surface. A (nonorientable) Lefschetz fibration \(f\colon X\to\Sigma\) is admissible if it has at least one singular fiber and all the vanishing cycles of \(f\) are nontrivial. In a nonorientable Lefschetz fibration, the regular fiber is a nonorientable surface. A Lefschetz fibration is said to be of genus \(g\) if the regular fiber is of genus \(g\). For any closed nonorientable surface \(S\) of genus \(g\), if a product of \(m\) nontrivial Dehn twists is equal to a product of \(h\) commutators in the mapping class group of \(S\), then there is an admissible (nonorientable) genus \(g\) Lefschetz fibration with \(m\) singular fibers over a closed orientable surface of genus \(h\). In the present paper, it is proved that there exists an admissible nonorientable genus \(g\) Lefschetz fibration with one singular fiber over a closed orientable surface of genus \(h\) if and only if \(g\ge 4\) and \(h\ge 1\). The authors explicitly express a nontrivial Dehn twist about a separating curve as a single commutator in the mapping class group of a closed nonorientable surface \(S\) of genus \(g=4,5\) and \(6\). For \(g\ge 7\) they apply a similar result of this reviewer [\textit{B. Szepietowski}, C. R., Math., Acad. Sci. Paris 348, No. 15--16, 923--926 (2010; Zbl 1195.57044)]. They also show that if \(S\) is a closed nonorientable surface of genus \(2\) or \(3\), then no nontrivial Dehn twist belongs to the commutator subgroup of the mapping class group of \(S\).

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