The obstruction to achiral Lefschetz fibrations on closed four-manifolds
The obstruction to achiral Lefschetz fibrations on closed four-manifolds
A broken Lefschetz fibration (BLF) is a fibration allowing Lefschetz singularities and round -handle singularities, while an achiral fibration also allows anti-Lefschetz singularities. A closed, smooth, oriented -manifold is called BLF-admitting if it admits a BLF over .
BLF achirality conjecture. Not all closed, smooth, oriented -manifolds admit BLFs; in particular, it is possible that 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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