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Constructing Lefschetz Fibrations with Arbitrary Slope

Geometric Topology 2026-04-07 v2

Abstract

We prove that for any rational number r(2,8)r\in (2,8), there exists a genus-gg Lefschetz fibration over the two-sphere with large enough genus-gg having the slope is rr.

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@article{arxiv.2512.03714,
  title  = {Constructing Lefschetz Fibrations with Arbitrary Slope},
  author = {Tulin Altunoz and Adalet Cengel},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2512.03714},
  year   = {2026}
}

Comments

13 pages, 3 figures, improved the main result

R2 v1 2026-07-01T08:07:34.962Z