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Canonical classes and the geography of nonminimal Lefschetz fibrations over S2

Yoshihisa Sato

Vol. 262 (2013), No. 1, 191–226
Abstract

The Stipsicz conjecture on the fiber-sum decomposability of Lefschetz fibrations states that nonminimal Lefschetz fibrations over S2 are irreducible with respect to fiber-sum decompositions and we can judge that such Lefschetz fibrations are prime and fundamental. In this paper, we can determine the canonical classes of nonminimal Lefschetz fibrations admitting spheres of square 1 whose total intersection number with generic fiber is big. As a consequence, we consider the Kodaira dimension and the geography problem of such Lefschetz fibrations.

Keywords
Lefschetz fibrations, canonical class, geography, 4-manifolds, pseudoholomorphic curves, Gromov invariants
Mathematical Subject Classification 2010
Primary: 14J80, 57R17
Secondary: 14D06, 32Q65
Milestones
Received: 3 August 2011
Revised: 11 July 2012
Accepted: 6 November 2012
Published: 27 March 2013
Authors
Yoshihisa Sato
Department of Systems Design and Informatics
Kyushu Institute of Technology
680-4 Kawazu, Iizuka
Fukuoka 820-8502
Japan