Clustering of critical points in Lefschetz fibrations and the symplectic Szpiro inequality

DOI10.1090/S0002-9947-03-03290-2zbMATH Open1033.53076arXivmath/0204153MaRDI QIDQ4806480FDOQ4806480

Authors: Volker Braungardt, D. Kotschick 

Publication date: 14 May 2003

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

Abstract: We prove upper bounds for the number of critical points in semistable symplectic Lefschetz fibrations. We also obtain a new lower bound for the number of nonseparting vanishing cycles in Lefschetz pencils, and reprove the known lower bounds for the commutator lengths of Dehn twists.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0204153

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zbMATH Keywords

Lefschetz fibrationsvanishing cyclesDehn twistsfour-manifolds

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Families, moduli of curves (algebraic) (14H10) Global theory of symplectic and contact manifolds (53D35) Symplectic and contact topology in high or arbitrary dimension (57R17) Applications of global analysis to structures on manifolds (57R57)

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