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Positive Dehn Twist Expressions for some New Involutions in Mapping Class Group

Geometric Topology 2007-05-23 v1 Symplectic Geometry

Abstract

The well-known fact that any genus gg symplectic Lefschetz fibration X4S2 X^{4}\to S^{2} is given by a word that is equal to the identity element in the mapping class group and each of whose elements is given by a positive Dehn twist, provides an intimate relationship between words in the mapping class group and 4-manifolds that are realized as symplectic Lefschetz fibrations. In this article we provide new words in the mapping class group, hence new symplectic Lefschetz fibrations. We also compute the signatures of those symplectic Lefschetz fibrations.

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@article{arxiv.math/0404310,
  title  = {Positive Dehn Twist Expressions for some New Involutions in Mapping Class Group},
  author = {Yusuf Ziya Gurtas},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0404310},
  year   = {2007}
}

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31 pages and 22 figures