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Terry Fuller

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arXiv2022

Branched covers and pencils on hyperelliptic Lefschetz fibrations

Generalizing work of I. Baykur, K. Hayano, and N. Monden (arXiv:1903.02906), we construct infinite families of symplectic 4-dimensional manifolds, obtained as total spaces of Lefschetz pencils constructed by explicit monodromy factorizations. Then, generalizing work of the author (arXiv:2108.04868), we show that each of these manifolds is diffeomorphic to a complex surface that is a fiber sum formed from two standard examples of hyperelliptic Lefschetz fibrations. Consequently, we see that these hyperelliptic Lefschetz fibrations, as well as all fiber sums of them, admit an infinite family of explicitly described Lefschetz pencils, which we observe are different from families formed by the degree doubling procedure.

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arXiv2021

Unchaining surgery, branched covers, and pencils on elliptic surfaces

We show that every member of an infinite family of symplectic manifolds constructed by R. Inanc Baykur, Kenta Hayano, and Naoyuki Monden (arXiv:1903:02906) is diffeomorphic to an elliptic surface. As a result: (1) the symplectic Calabi-Yau 4-manifolds among their family are diffeomorphic to the standard K3 surface; (2) each elliptic surface E(n) admits a genus g Lefschetz pencil, for all g greater than or equal to n; and (3) each elliptic surface E(n) blown up once admits a pair of inequivalent genus g Lefschetz pencils, for all g greater than or equal to n.

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arXiv2006

Realizing 4-manifolds as achiral Lefschetz fibrations

We show that any 4-manifold, after surgery on a curve, admits an achiral Lefschetz fibration. In particular, we show that the connected sum of any simply connected 4-manifold with a 2-sphere bundle over the 2-sphere will admit an achiral Lefschetz fibration. We also show these surgered manifolds admit near-symplectic structures and prove more generally that achiral Lefschetz fibrations with sections have near-symplectic structures. As a corollary to our proof we obtain an alternate proof of Gompf's result on the existence of symplectic structures on Lefschetz pencils.

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arXiv1999

Hyperelliptic Lefschetz fibrations and branched covering spaces

Let M be a smooth 4-manifold which admits a relatively minimal hyperelliptic genus h Lefschetz fibration over the 2-sphere. If all of the vanishing cycles for this fibration are nonseparating curves, then we show that M is a 2-fold cover of a 2-sphere bundle over the 2-sphere, branched over an embedded surface. If the collection of vanishing cycles for this fibration includes separating curves, we show that M is the relative minimalization of a Lefshetz fibration N, with N a 2-fold branched cover of a rational surface, branched over an embedded surface.

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