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On genera of Lefschetz fibrations and finitely presented groups

Geometric Topology 2014-04-01 v1

Abstract

It is known that every finitely presented group is the fundamental group of the total space of a Lefschetz fibration. In this paper, we give another proof which improves the result of Korkmaz. In addition, Korkmaz defined the genus of a finitely presented group. We also evaluate upper bounds for genera of some finitely presented groups.

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@article{arxiv.1403.7736,
  title  = {On genera of Lefschetz fibrations and finitely presented groups},
  author = {Ryoma Kobayashi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1403.7736},
  year   = {2014}
}

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24 pages, 17 figures