English

Counting Dirac braid relators and hyperelliptic Lefschetz fibrations

Geometric Topology 2017-05-04 v2

Abstract

We define a new invariant ww for hyperelliptic Lefschetz fibrations over closed oriented surfaces, which counts the number of Dirac braids included intrinsically in the monodromy, by using chart description introduced by the second author. As an application, we prove that two hyperelliptic Lefschetz fibrations of genus gg over a given base space are stably isomorphic if and only if they have the same numbers of singular fibers of each type and they have the same value of ww if gg is odd. We also give examples of pair of hyperelliptic Lefschetz fibrations with the same numbers of singular fibers of each type which are not stably isomorphic.

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@article{arxiv.1508.07687,
  title  = {Counting Dirac braid relators and hyperelliptic Lefschetz fibrations},
  author = {Hisaaki Endo and Seiichi Kamada},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1508.07687},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

30 pages, 32 figures; (v2) the title changed, Section 1 rewritten, remarks added. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1403.7946

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