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A Note on Lefschetz Fibrations on Compact Stein 4-Manifolds

Geometric Topology 2018-03-23 v3 Algebraic Geometry Symplectic Geometry

Abstract

Loi-Piergallini and Akbulut-Ozbagci showed that every compact Stein surface admits a Lefschetz fibration over the 2-disk with bounded fibers. In this note we give a more intrinsic alternative proof of this result.

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@article{arxiv.1007.3643,
  title  = {A Note on Lefschetz Fibrations on Compact Stein 4-Manifolds},
  author = {Selman Akbulut and M. Firat Arikan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1007.3643},
  year   = {2018}
}

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14 pages, 15 figures

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