Moduli spaces and braid monodromy types of bidouble covers of the quadric

DOI10.2140/GT.2011.15.351MaRDI QIDQ631336zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Fabrizio Catanese, Michael Lönne, Bronisław Wajnryb

Publication date 23 March 2011

Published in Geometry \& Topology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0910.2142

zbMATH Keywords

braid momodromy factorizationsurfaces of general type

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Structure of families (Picard-Lefschetz, monodromy, etc.) (14D05) Surfaces of general type (14J29)

Abstract: Bidouble covers $pi:SmapstoQ$ of the quadric Q are parametrized by connected families depending on four positive integers a,b,c,d. In the special case where b=d we call them abc-surfaces. Such a Galois covering $pi$ admits a small perturbation yielding a general 4-tuple covering of Q with branch curve $De$, and a natural Lefschetz fibration obtained from a small perturbation of the composition of $pi$ with the first projection. We prove a more general result implying that the braid monodromy factorization corresponding to $De$ determines the three integers a,b,c in the case of abc-surfaces. We introduce a new method in order to distinguish factorizations which are not stably equivalent. This result is in sharp contrast with a previous result of the first and third author, showing that the mapping class group factorizations corresponding to the respective natural Lefschetz pencils are equivalent for abc-surfaces with the same values of a+c, b. This result hints at the possibility that abc-surfaces with fixed values of a+c, b, although diffeomorphic but not deformation equivalent, might be not canonically symplectomorphic.

Review text

Motivated by questions on the canonical symplectomorphism class of surfaces of general type, the authors investigate certain surfaces of general type called \(abc\)-surfaces. This surfaces are bidouble covers \(S\rightarrow\mathbb{P}^1\times\mathbb{P}^1\), defined in terms of bihomogeneous polynomials whose degree is encoded in the integers \(a,b,c\geq 3\), and where already studied by \textit{F. Catanese} and \textit{B. Wajnryb} [J. Differ. Geom. 76, No. 2, 177--213 (2007; Zbl 1127.14039)]. The projections \(S\rightarrow\mathbb{P}^1\) endow such surface with a Lefschetz fibration, and the braid monodromy factorization attached to the branch divisor of the bidouble cover is closely related to the braid monodromy factorization coming from the Lefschetz fibration, The main result of the paper is that the braid monodromy factorizations for an \(abc\)-surface \(S\) and an \(a'b'c'\)-surface \(S'\) are not equivalent, except in obvious cases. The equivalence relation in question is the m-equivalence from [\textit{D. Auroux, L. Katzarkov}, Invent. Math. 142, No.3, 631--673 (2000; Zbl 0961.57019)], which the authors call stable equivalence.

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