The obstruction to achiral Lefschetz fibrations on closed four-manifolds

A broken Lefschetz fibration (BLF) is a fibration allowing Lefschetz singularities and round 11-handle singularities, while an achiral fibration also allows anti-Lefschetz singularities. A closed, smooth, oriented 44-manifold is called BLF-admitting if it admits a BLF over S2S^2.

BLF achirality conjecture. Not all closed, smooth, oriented 44-manifolds admit BLFs; in particular, it is possible that CP2\mathbb{C}P^2 is necessarily achiral as a fibration, even though it has a Lefschetz pencil structure.

The source presents this as a possibility rather than a resolved assertion, so its status is unclear from the supplied text. The claim concerns the distinction between broken and achiral Lefschetz fibrations on four-manifolds.

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David T. Gay and Robion Kirby, “Constructing Lefschetz-type fibrations on four-manifolds”, arXiv:math/0701084 (2007).

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