Lantern relations and rational blowdowns

DOI10.1090/S0002-9939-09-10128-4zbMATH Open1198.57017arXiv0808.0386MaRDI QIDQ3550587FDOQ3550587

Authors: Yusuf Z. Gurtas, Hisaaki Endo 

Publication date: 31 March 2010

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

Abstract: We discuss a connection between the lantern relation in mapping class groups and the rational blowing down process for 4-manifolds. More precisely, if we change a positive relator in Dehn twist generators of the mapping class group by using a lantern relation, the corresponding Lefschetz fibration changes into its rational blowdown along a copy of the configuration C_2. We exhibit examples of such rational blowdowns of Lefschetz fibrations whose blowup is homeomorphic but not diffeomorphic to the original fibration.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0808.0386

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zbMATH Keywords

Lefschetz fibrationmapping class groupsymplectic topology4-manifoldrational blowdownlantern relation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Other groups related to topology or analysis (20F38) Symplectic and contact topology in high or arbitrary dimension (57R17)

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