GEOGRAPHY OF SYMPLECTIC LEFSCHETZ FIBRATIONS AND RATIONAL BLOWDOWNS


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Baykur R. I., KORKMAZ M., Simone J.

Transactions of the American Mathematical Society, cilt.377, sa.10, ss.6771-6792, 2024 (SCI-Expanded) identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 377 Sayı: 10
  • Basım Tarihi: 2024
  • Doi Numarası: 10.1090/tran/8968
  • Dergi Adı: Transactions of the American Mathematical Society
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus, Academic Search Premier, MathSciNet, zbMATH, DIALNET
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.6771-6792
  • Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

We produce simply-connected, minimal, symplectic Lefschetz fibrations realizing all the lattice points in the symplectic geography plane below the Noether line. This provides a symplectic extension of the classical works populating the complex geography plane with holomorphic Lefschetz fibrations. Our examples are obtained by rationally blowing down Lefschetz fibrations with clustered nodal fibers, the total spaces of which are potentially new homotopy elliptic surfaces. Similarly, clustering nodal fibers on higher genera Lefschetz fibrations on standard rational surfaces, we get rational blowdown configurations that yield new constructions of small symplectic exotic 4–manifolds. We present an example of a construction of a minimal symplectic exotic CP2# 5CP2 through this procedure applied to a genus–3 fibration.