English

Lefschetz fibrations over the disc

Geometric Topology 2013-09-11 v3

Abstract

We provide a complete set of moves relating any two Lefschetz fibrations over the disk having as their total space the same 4-dimensional 2-handlebody up to 2-equivalence. As a consequence, we also obtain moves relating diffeomorphic 3-dimensional open books, providing a different approach to an analogous previous result by Harer.

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@article{arxiv.1104.4536,
  title  = {Lefschetz fibrations over the disc},
  author = {Nikos Apostolakis and Riccardo Piergallini and Daniele Zuddas},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1104.4536},
  year   = {2013}
}

Comments

Improved exposition, now equivalent to the published one; 51 pages, 67 figures

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