Generic fibrations around multiple fibers

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Abstract: Given some type of fibration on a 4-manifold X with a torus regular fiber T, we may produce a new 4-manifold XT by performing torus surgery on T. There is a natural way to extend the fibration to XT, but a multiple fiber (non-generic) singularity is introduced. We construct explicit generic fibrations (with only indefinite fold singularities) in a neighborhood of this multiple fiber. As an application this gives explicit constructions of broken Lefschetz fibrations on all elliptic surfaces (e.g. the family E(n)p,q). As part of the construction we produce generic fibrations around exceptional fibers of Seifert fibered spaces.


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 \(E(n)_{p,q}\).











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