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Signatures of Lefschetz fibrations

Geometric Topology 2017-01-05 v2

Abstract

Let M be a smooth 4-manifold which admits a genus g Lefschetz fibration over D^2 or S^2. We develop a technique to compute the signature of M using the global monodromy of this fibration.

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@article{arxiv.math/9809178,
  title  = {Signatures of Lefschetz fibrations},
  author = {Burak Ozbagci},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/9809178},
  year   = {2017}
}