Classification of boundary Lefschetz fibrations over the disc
Abstract
We show that a four-manifold admits a boundary Lefschetz fibration over the disc if and only if it is diffeomorphic to $S^1 \times S^3\# n \overline{\mathbb{C} P^2}$, $\# m\mathbb{C} P^2 \#n\overline{\mathbb{C} P^2}$ or $\# m (S^2 \times S^2)$. Given the relation between boundary Lefschetz fibrations and stable generalized complex structures, we conclude that the manifolds $S^1 \times S^3\# n \overline{\mathbb{C} P^2}$, $\#(2m+1)\mathbb{C} P^2 \#n\overline{\mathbb{C} P^2}$ and $\# (2m+1) S^2 \times S^2$ admit stable structures whose type change locus has a single component and are the only four-manifolds whose stable structure arise from boundary Lefschetz fibrations over the disc.
- Publication:
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arXiv e-prints
- Pub Date:
- June 2017
- DOI:
- 10.48550/arXiv.1706.09207
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1706.09207
- Bibcode:
- 2017arXiv170609207B
- Keywords:
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- Mathematics - Differential Geometry;
- 53D18;
- 53D17
- E-Print:
- 18 pages, 8 figures. Paper for the proceedings of the conference in honour of Prof. Nigel Hitchin on the occasion of his 70th birthday