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Symplectic Mapping Class Group Relations Generalizing the Chain Relation

Geometric Topology 2016-11-04 v4 Symplectic Geometry

Abstract

In this paper, we examine mapping class group relations of some symplectic manifolds. For each n1n\geq 1 and k1k \geq 1, we show that the 2n2n-dimensional Weinstein domain W={f=δ}B2n+2W = \{f=\delta\} \cap B^{2n+2}, determined by the degree kk homogeneous polynomial fC[z0,,zn]f\in \mathbb{C}[z_0,\dots,z_n], has a Boothby-Wang type boundary and a right-handed fibered Dehn twist along the boundary that is symplectically isotopic to a product of right-handed Dehn twists along Lagrangian spheres. We also present explicit descriptions of the symplectomorphisms in the case n=2n=2 recovering the classical chain relation for the torus with two boundary components.

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@article{arxiv.1412.3789,
  title  = {Symplectic Mapping Class Group Relations Generalizing the Chain Relation},
  author = {Bahar Acu and Russell Avdek},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1412.3789},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

21 pages, 8 figures; v.4 incorporates several improvements and corrections suggested by the referee; to appear in Internat. J. Math

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