English

Trisections and Lefschetz fibrations with $(-n)$-sections

Geometric Topology 2026-01-07 v2 Symplectic Geometry

Abstract

Castro and Ozbagci constructed a trisection of a closed 4-manifold admitting a Lefschetz fibration with a (1)(-1)-section such that the corresponding trisection diagram can be explicitly constructed from a monodromy of the Lefschetz fibration. In this paper, for a closed 4-manifold XX admitting an achiral Lefschetz fibration with a (n)(-n)-section, we construct a trisection of X#nCP2X \# n\mathbb{C}P^2 if nn is positive and X#(n)CP2X \# (-n)\overline{\mathbb{C}P^2} if nn is negative such that the corresponding trisection diagram can be explicitly constructed from a monodromy of the Lefschetz fibration. We also construct a trisection of the fiber sum of two achiral Lefschetz fibrations with nn- and (n)(-n)-sections such that the corresponding trisection diagram can be explicitly constructed from monodromies of the Lefschetz fibrations.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.2512.21001,
  title  = {Trisections and Lefschetz fibrations with $(-n)$-sections},
  author = {Tsukasa Isoshima and Reo Yabuguchi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2512.21001},
  year   = {2026}
}

Comments

27 pages, 26 figures

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