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Study defines PFH cobordism maps from Lefschetz fibrations.

The purpose of this note is to explain a combinatorial description of closed smooth oriented 4-manifolds in terms of positive Dehn twist factorizations of surface mapping classes, and further explore these connections. This is obtained via monodromy representations of simplified broken Lefschetz fibrations on 4-manifol…

The well-known fact that any genus $g$ symplectic Lefschetz fibration $X^{4}\to S^{2}$ is given by a word that is equal to the identity element in the mapping class group and each of whose elements is given by a positive Dehn twist, provides an intimate relationship between words in the mapping class group and 4-manif…

New method proves achiral Lefschetz fibrations exist using Riemannian geometry.

Develops Lefschetz theory for noncompact manifolds.

In this article, we characterize isomorphism classes of Lefschetz fibrations with multisections via their monodromy factorizations. We prove that two Lefschetz fibrations with multisections are isomorphic if and only if their monodromy factorizations in the relevant mapping class groups are related to each other by a f…

Paper proves achiral Lefschetz fibrations from non-orientable Lefschetz fibrations.

Generalizes Lefschetz fibrations with rational homology disk smoothings.

Simplified maps help understand 4D spaces better.

A hyperelliptic broken Lefschetz fibration is a generalization of a hyperelliptic Lefschetz fibration. We construct and compute a local signature of hyperelliptic directed broken Lefschetz fibrations by generalizing Endo's local signature of hyperelliptic Lefschetz fibrations. It is described by his local signature and…

In this paper we study the behaviour of the Lefschetz property under the blow-up construction. We show that it is possible to reduce the dimension of the kernel of the Lefschetz map if we blow up along a suitable submanifold satisfying the Lefschetz property. We use that, together with results about Massey products, to…

The paper bounds the first Betti number and discusses properties of Lefschetz fibrations.

Let $F$ be a smooth foliation on a closed Riemannian manifold $M$, and let $Λ$ be a transverse invariant measure of $F$. Suppose that $Λ$ is absolutely continuous with respect to the Lebesgue measure on smooth transversals. Then a topological definition of the $Λ$-Lefschetz number of any leaf preserving diffeomorphism …

Mathai-Quillen forms are used to give an integral formula for the Lefschetz number of a smooth map of a closed manifold. Applied to the identity map, this formula reduces to the Chern-Gauss-Bonnet theorem. The formula is computed explicitly for constant curvature metrics. There is in fact a one-parameter family of inte…

We employ a certain labeled finite graph, called a chart, in a closed oriented surface for describing the monodromy of a(n achiral) Lefschetz fibration over the surface. Applying charts and their moves with respect to Wajnryb's presentation of mapping class groups, we first generalize a signature formula for Lefschetz …

Invariants from bilinear forms help classify Lefschetz fibrations.

Reviews g-theorem and hard Lefschetz theorem for face rings.

In this note we find new relations in the mapping class group of a genus two surface with n boundary components for n=1,..., 8 which induce a genus two Lefschetz fibration $CP^2#13CP^2bar \to S^2$ with n disjoint sections. As a consequence, we observe any holomorphic genus 2 Lefschetz fibration without separating singu…

New symplectic operations and Lefschetz fibrations constructed from specific relations.

New maps show some surfaces can't be sections of 4D spheres.

We survey work by the author and Ralf Meyer on equivariant KK-theory. Duality plays a key role in our approach. We organize the survey around the objective of computing a certain homotopy-invariant of a space equipped with a proper action of a group or groupoid called the Lefschetz map. The Lefschetz map associates an …

We prove that every closed oriented smooth 4-manifold X admits a broken Lefschetz fibration (aka singular Lefschetz fibration) over the 2-sphere. Given any closed orientable surface F of square zero in X, we can choose the fibration so that F is a fiber. Moreover, we can arrange it so that there is only one Lefschetz c…

We introduce a Lefschetz filtration for integer cohomology and explore its applications.

Suppose one is given a discrete group G, a cocompact proper G-manifold M, and a G-self-map f of M. Then we introduce the equivariant Lefschetz class of f, which is globally defined in terms of cellular chain complexes, and the local equivariant Lefschetz class of f, which is locally defined in terms of fixed point data…

In this article, we study the maximal length of positive Dehn twist factorizations of surface mapping classes. In connection to fundamental questions regarding the uniform topology of symplectic 4-manifolds and Stein fillings of contact 3-manifolds coming from the topology of supporting Lefschetz pencils and open books…

For any two continuous maps $f,g$ between two solvmanifolds of same dimension satisfying the Mostow condition, we give a technique of computation of the Lefschetz coincidence number of $f,g$. This result is an extension of the result of Ha, Lee and Penninckx for completely solvable case.

Proves new fixed point formulae for complex manifolds with boundary.

We discuss a connection between the lantern relation in mapping class groups and the rational blowing down process for 4-manifolds. More precisely, if we change a positive relator in Dehn twist generators of the mapping class group by using a lantern relation, the corresponding Lefschetz fibration changes into its rati…

Study defines and proves cobordism maps on periodic Floer homology using Seiberg-Witten and holomorphic curve methods.

Formula connects knot invariant to Lefschetz number, proving special case for Seifert solids.

Formula connects Lefschetz number to Frøyshov invariant and Murasugi signature.

We initiate a study of positive multisections of Lefschetz fibrations via positive factorizations in framed mapping class groups of surfaces. Using our methods, one can effectively capture various interesting symplectic surfaces in symplectic 4-manifolds as multisections, such as Seiberg-Witten basic classes and except…

Researchers compare two homological invariants for mapping classes of surfaces.

The paper explores conditions for sections in Lefschetz fibrations and bundles over 2-complexes.

We construct a relation among right-handed Dehn twists in the mapping class group of a compact oriented surface of genus g with 4g+4 boundary components. This relation gives an explicit topological description of 4g+4 disjoint (-1)-sections of a hyperelliptic Lefschetz fibration of genus g on the manifold {CP}^2#(4g+5)…

Nonorientable 4-manifolds can be fibred over 2-disks with nonorientable fibers.

A complete description of the global monodromy of a Lefschetz fibration arising from the Fermat surface of degree 4 is given. As a by-product we get a positive relation among right hand Dehn twists in the mapping class group of a closed orientable surface of genus 3.

We give criteria for Morin singularities for germs of maps into lower dimensions. As an application, we study the bifurcation of Lefschetz singularities.

Purpose of the Conference article, intended for a wider audience, is to introduce concepts and techniques used by Bronislaw Wajnryb and the author in order to show the diffeomorphism of certain elementary algebraic surfaces, called ABC surfaces, which are not deformation equivalent. In the first part are recalled the c…

In [8] the authors introduced a pair of new de Rham complexes on a compact oriented Riemannian manifold with boundary by using a pair of new boundary conditions to discuss the refined analytic torsion on a compact manifold with boundary. In this paper we discuss the Lefschetz fixed point formula on these complexes with…

Monodromy and vanishing cycles computed for ample linear systems on simply connected surfaces.

Develops analytic methods for Lefschetz and Morse theories on stratified pseudomanifolds.

The Lefschetz hyperplane section theorem asserts that an affine variety is homotopy equivalent to a space obtained from its generic hyperplane section by attaching some cells. The purpose of this paper is to describe attaching maps of these cells for the complement of a complex hyperplane arrangement defined over real …

In this paper, we give some relations in the mapping class groups of oriented closed surfaces in the form that a product of a small number of right hand Dehn twists is equal to a single commutator. Consequently, we find upper bounds for the minimal number of singular fibers in a Lefschetz fibration over the torus.

We construct examples of Lefschetz fibrations with prescribed singular fibers. By taking differences of pairs of such fibrations with the same singular fibers, we obtain new examples of surface bundles over surfaces with non-zero signature. From these we derive new upper bounds for the minimal genus of a surface repres…

Study stabilizers of isotropic classes in rational 4-manifolds, finding diffeomorphisms that almost preserve Lefschetz fibrations.

It is known that an arbitrary smooth, oriented 4-manifold admits the structure of what is called a broken Lefschetz fibration. Given a broken fibration, there are certain modifications, realized as homotopies of the fibration map, that enable one to construct infinitely many distinct fibrations of the same manifold. Th…

We use the mapping cone for the relative deRham cohomology of a manifold with boundary in order to show that the Chern-Gauss-Bonnet Theorem for oriented Riemannian vector bundles over such manifolds is a manifestation of Lefschetz Duality in any of the two embodiments of the latter. We explain how Thom isomorphism fits…