Symplectic Lefschetz fibrations of curves as gonal coverings
Structure of families (Picard-Lefschetz, monodromy, etc.) (14D05) Fine and coarse moduli spaces (14D22) Special algebraic curves and curves of low genus (14H45) Almost complex manifolds (32Q60) Global theory of symplectic and contact manifolds (53D35) Symplectic and contact topology in high or arbitrary dimension (57R17)
The present paper shows that every symplectic Lefschetz fibration (SLF) with fiber genus \(g>3\) admits a finite simple branched covering branched in a symplectic submanifold. The origin of this work is \textit{B. Siebert} and \textit{G. Tian}'s previous work. They showed in [Commun. Contemp. Math. 1, No. 2, 255--280 (1999; Zbl 0948.57018)] that every hyperelliptic SLF over \(S^2\) is turned into a two-fold covering over a rational ruled surface branched in a symplectic submanifold. This study gives the classification of \(g=2\) Lefschetz fibrations, because the genus \(g=2\) mapping classes are all hyperelliptic. The hyperellipticity condition, however, is very restrictive in the full mapping class group in general. The theme of this paper is to establish a general theory as a subsequent work for Siebert and Tian. Siebert and Tian used the blow-up for deformations, while in the present paper the authors use a branched cover over the moduli space \(\overline{\mathcal M}_g\) of curves. In order to construct branched coverings, the authors use general coverings with degree \(d=\lfloor\frac{g+3}{2}\rfloor\). These give a map \(\overline{\mathcal{H}}_{d,g}\to\overline{\mathcal{M}}_g\) between two moduli spaces: the completion of the Hurwitz space \(\overline{\mathcal{H}}_{d,g}\) and the moduli space \(\overline{\mathcal{M}}_g\). Furthermore, instead of \(\overline{\mathcal H}_{d,g}\) itself, we technically need to take a subvariety \(\tilde{H}\) in the Hurwitz space depending on the parity of \(g\). As a result, the restriction \(h:\tilde{H}\to \overline{\mathcal M}_g\) becomes a finite (branched) map. For the given SLF \(f:X\to B\), the pull back \(h^\ast(B)\to \tilde{H}\) gives an SLF \(\tilde{X}\to\tilde{B}=h^\ast(B)\), where \(\tilde{B}\) is a closed surface. Showing smoothness at any general point in some divisors in the Hurwitz space, they conclude that the SLF \(\tilde{f}:\tilde{X}\to\tilde{B}\) can be turned into a cover \(\kappa:\tilde{X}\to P\), where \(P\) is a symplectic ruled surface. This gives a family of degree \(d\) branched cover \(X_s\to {\mathbb P}^1_{\mathbb C}\). In the final section, the authors focus on the fiber genus \(g=4\) case, which is the simplest but non-trivial case in the present work. Every symplectic Lefschetz fibration with the fiber genus \(4\) admits a trigonal cover to a symplectic ruled surface branched in a symplectic submanifold. Here they devote to making an explicit analysis in the case of \(g=4\) with local models of singular fibers and symplecticity of branching divisors.
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