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Noncomplex smooth 4-manifolds with genus-2 Lefschetz fibrations

Geometric Topology 2007-05-23 v2 Algebraic Geometry

Abstract

We construct noncomplex smooth 4-manifolds which admit genus-2 Lefschetz fibrations over S^2. The fibrations are necessarily hyperelliptic, and the resulting 4-manifolds are not even homotopy equivalent to complex surfaces. Furthermore, these examples show that fiber sums of holomorphic Lefschetz fibrations do not necessarily admit complex structures.

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@article{arxiv.math/9810007,
  title  = {Noncomplex smooth 4-manifolds with genus-2 Lefschetz fibrations},
  author = {Burak Ozbagci and András I. Stipsicz},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/9810007},
  year   = {2007}
}
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