A NOTE ON LEFSCHETZ FIBRATIONS ON COMPACT STEIN 4-MANIFOLDS


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Akbulut S., Arikan M. F.

COMMUNICATIONS IN CONTEMPORARY MATHEMATICS, cilt.14, sa.5, 2012 (SCI-Expanded, Scopus) identifier identifier

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Loi-Piergallini and Akbulut-Ozbagci showed that every compact Stein surface admits a Lefschetz fibration over the disk D-2 with bounded fibers. In this note we give a more intrinsic alternative proof of this result.