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Universal Lefschetz fibrations over bounded surfaces

Geometric Topology 2015-03-19 v3

Abstract

In analogy with the vector bundle theory we define universal and strongly universal Lefschetz fibrations over bounded surfaces. After giving a characterization of these fibrations we construct very special strongly universal Lefschetz fibrations when the fiber is the torus or an orientable surface with connected boundary and the base surface is the disk. As a by-product we also get some immersion results for 4-dimensional 2-handlebodies.

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@article{arxiv.1106.3530,
  title  = {Universal Lefschetz fibrations over bounded surfaces},
  author = {Daniele Zuddas},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1106.3530},
  year   = {2015}
}

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Last update: minor revisions; Major revision: more general definitions and results; 15 pages, 16 figures

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