Lefschetz Fibrations and an Invariant of Finitely Presented Groups

DOI10.1093/IMRN/RNN164MaRDI QIDQ3633178zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Mustafa Korkmaz

Publication date 17 June 2009

Published in IMRN. International Mathematics Research Notices (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0703196

zbMATH Keywords

fundamental groupLefschetz fibrationsymplectic manifold4-manifoldfinitely presented group

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Symplectic and contact topology in high or arbitrary dimension (57R17) Algebraic topology on manifolds and differential topology (57R19)

Abstract: Every finitely presented group is the fundamental group of the total space of a Lefschetz fibration. This follows from results of Gompf and Donaldson, and was also proved by Amoros-Bogomolov-Katzarkov-Pantev. We give another proof by providing the monodromy explicitly. We then define the genus of a finitely presented group $Gamma$ to be the minimal genus of a Lefschetz fibration with fundamental group $Gamma$. We also give some estimates of the genus of certain groups.

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