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