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Symplectic Lefschetz fibrations with arbitrary fundamental groups

Geometric Topology 2009-03-10 v2 Algebraic Geometry

Abstract

In this paper we give an explicit construction of a symplectic Lefschetz fibration whose total space is a smooth compact four dimensional manifold with a prescribed fundamental group. We also study the numerical properties of the sections in symplectic Lefschetz fibrations and their relation to the structure of the monodromy group.

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@article{arxiv.math/9810042,
  title  = {Symplectic Lefschetz fibrations with arbitrary fundamental groups},
  author = {J. Amorós and F. Bogomolov and L. Katzarkov and T. Pantev and I. Smith},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/9810042},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

45 pages, LaTeX2e. Minor mistakes corrected. New appendix by Ivan Smith added, proving the non-existence of SLF with monodromy contained in the Torelli group

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