Sections of surface bundles and Lefschetz fibrations

DOI10.1090/S0002-9947-2013-05840-0MaRDI QIDQ2849038zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Mustafa Korkmaz, Naoyuki Monden, R. İnanç Baykur

Publication date 16 September 2013

Published in Transactions of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1110.1224

zbMATH Keywords

Lefschetz fibrationmapping class groupsurface bundlemaximal section

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geometric group theory (20F65) Symplectic and contact topology in high or arbitrary dimension (57R17) Topology of vector bundles and fiber bundles (57R22) Fiberings with singularities in algebraic topology (55R55)

Abstract: We investigate the possible self-intersection numbers for sections of surface bundles and Lefschetz fibrations over surfaces. When the fiber genus g and the base genus h are positive, we prove that the adjunction bound 2h-2 is the only universal bound on the self-intersection number of a section of any such genus g bundle and fibration. As a side result, in the mapping class group of a surface with boundary, we calculate the precise value of the commutator lengths of all powers of a Dehn twist about a boundary component, concluding that the stable commutator length of such a Dehn twist is 1/2. We furthermore prove that there is no upper bound on the number of critical points of genus-g Lefschetz fibrations over surfaces with positive genera admitting sections of maximal self-intersection, for g at least two.

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