Broken Lefschetz fibrations and mapping class groups

DOI10.2140/GTM.2015.19.269zbMATH Open1332.30069arXiv1410.5531OpenAlexW2964072746MaRDI QIDQ906850FDOQ906850

Authors: Kenta Hayano, R. İnanç Baykur 

Publication date: 29 January 2016

Abstract: The purpose of this note is to explain a combinatorial description of closed smooth oriented 4-manifolds in terms of positive Dehn twist factorizations of surface mapping classes, and further explore these connections. This is obtained via monodromy representations of simplified broken Lefschetz fibrations on 4-manifolds, for which we provide an extension of Hurwitz moves that allows us to uniquely determine the isomorphism class of a broken Lefschetz fibration. We furthermore discuss broken Lefschetz fibrations whose monodromies are contained in special subgroups of the mapping class group; namely, the hyperelliptic mapping class group and in the Torelli group, respectively, and present various results on them which extend or contrast with those known to hold for honest Lefschetz fibrations. Lastly, we show that there are 4-manifolds admitting infinitely many pairwise nonisomorphic relatively minimal broken Lefschetz fibrations with isotopic regular fibers.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1410.5531

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zbMATH Keywords

broken Lefschetz fibrationHurwitz system

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Riemann surfaces (30F99) Singularities of differentiable mappings in differential topology (57R45)

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