Small Lefschetz Fibrations on Simply-Connected 4-Manifolds

DOI10.55730/1300-0098.3157MaRDI QIDQ6364477arXivFDO

Authors Tülin Altunöz

Publication date 3 April 2021

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Other groups related to topology or analysis (20F38) Symplectic geometry, contact geometry (53Dxx) 2-dimensional topology (including mapping class groups of surfaces, Teichmüller theory, curve complexes, etc.) (57K20) General topology of 4-manifolds (57K40)

Abstract: We consider simply-connected $4$-manifolds admitting Lefschetz fibrations over the $2$-sphere. We explicitly construct nonhyperelliptic and hyperelliptic Lefschetz fibrations of genus $4$ on simply-connected $4$-manifolds which are exotic symplectic $4$-manifolds in the homeomorphism classes of $$ and $$, respectively. From these, we provide upper bounds for the minimal number of singular fibers of such fibrations. In addition, we prove that this number is equal to $18$ for $g=3$ when such fibrations are hyperelliptic. Moreover, we discuss these numbers for higher genera.

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