The number of singular fibers in hyperelliptic Lefschetz fibrations

DOI10.2969/JMSJ/82988298MaRDI QIDQ826475zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Tülin Altunöz

Publication date 4 January 2021

Published in Journal of the Mathematical Society of Japan (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.09093, https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.jmsj/1597629611

zbMATH Keywords

Lefschetz fibrationsmapping class groups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Other groups related to topology or analysis (20F38) 2-dimensional topology (including mapping class groups of surfaces, Teichmüller theory, curve complexes, etc.) (57K20) General topology of 4-manifolds (57K40) Symplectic structures in 4 dimensions (57K43) Symplectic and contact topology in high or arbitrary dimension (57R17)

Abstract: We consider complex surfaces, viewed as smooth $4$-dimensional manifolds, that admit hyperelliptic Lefschetz fibrations over the $2$-sphere. In this paper, we show that the minimal number of singular fibers of such fibrations is equal to $2g+4$ for even $ggeq4$. For odd $ggeq7$, we show that the number is greater than or equal to $2g+6$. Moreover, we discuss the minimal number of singular fibers in all hyperelliptic Lefschetz fibrations over the $2$-sphere as well.

Review text

The paper under review concerns the study of the lower bounds for the minimal number of singular fibres of genus-\(g\) Lefschetz fibrations over the two-sphere. Let \(M_g\) be the minimal number of singular fibres in all genus-\(g\) hyperelliptic Lefschetz fibrations over the two-sphere, with total space a complex surface (considered as a four-dimensional manifold) and let \(N_g\) be the minimal number of singular fibres in all genus-\(g\) hyperelliptic Lefschetz fibrations over the two-sphere. The author estimates \(N_g\) for \(4\leq g \leq 10\). A more exhaustive estimate is given for \(M_g\), proving the following: for \(g\) even, if \(g\geq 4\) then \(M_g=2g+4\); for \(g\) odd, if \(g\geq 7\) then \(M_g\geq 2g+6\).

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