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Handlebody argument for modifying achiral Lefschetz singularities

Geometric Topology 2010-09-07 v1

Abstract

This note presents the handlebody argument for modifying achiral Lefschetz singularities into broken Lefschetz fibrations, yielding a handlebody proof of the existence of broken Lefschetz fibrations on arbitrary closed smooth oriented 4-manifolds based on the earlier work of Gay and Kirby. Appeared in Geometry and Topology 13 (2009), 312-317; the references are updated herein.

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@article{arxiv.1009.1086,
  title  = {Handlebody argument for modifying achiral Lefschetz singularities},
  author = {R. Inanc Baykur},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1009.1086},
  year   = {2010}
}

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