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Symplectic Lefschetz fibrations on S^1 x M^3

Differential Geometry 2014-11-11 v3 Geometric Topology Symplectic Geometry

Abstract

In this paper we classify symplectic Lefschetz fibrations (with empty base locus) on a four-manifold which is the product of a three-manifold with a circle. This result provides further evidence in support of the following conjecture regarding symplectic structures on such a four-manifold: if the product of a three-manifold with a circle admits a symplectic structure, then the three-manifold must fiber over a circle, and up to a self-diffeomorphism of the four-manifold, the symplectic structure is deformation equivalent to the canonical symplectic structure determined by the fibration of the three-manifold over the circle.

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@article{arxiv.math/0002022,
  title  = {Symplectic Lefschetz fibrations on S^1 x M^3},
  author = {Weimin Chen and Rostislav Matveyev},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0002022},
  year   = {2014}
}

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Published by Geometry and Topology at http://www.maths.warwick.ac.uk/gt/GTVol4/paper18.abs.html