A note on Lefschetz fibrations on compact Stein 4-manifolds

DOI10.1142/S0219199712500356MaRDI QIDQ3166707zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Selman Akbulut, M. Firat Arikan

Publication date 15 October 2012

Published in Communications in Contemporary Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1007.3643

zbMATH Keywords

Stein manifoldLefschetz fibrationopen bookplumbing

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Surgery and handlebodies (57R65) Stein manifolds (32Q28)

Abstract: Loi-Piergallini and Akbulut-Ozbagci showed that every compact Stein surface admits a Lefschetz fibration over the 2-disk with bounded fibers. In this note we give a more intrinsic alternative proof of this result.

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