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Virtually symplectic fibered 4-manifolds

Geometric Topology 2014-06-24 v3 Symplectic Geometry

Abstract

We mostly determine which closed smooth oriented 4-manifolds fibering over lower dimensional manifolds are virtually symplectic, i.e. finitely covered by symplectic 4-manifolds.

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@article{arxiv.1210.4983,
  title  = {Virtually symplectic fibered 4-manifolds},
  author = {R. Inanc Baykur and Stefan Friedl},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1210.4983},
  year   = {2014}
}

Comments

14 pages. Minor revisions for publication. Lemma 15, which provides an obstruction to splitting symplectic 4-manifolds, is added

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