Minimal number of singular fibers in a lefschetz fibration

Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society

Volumn 129, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 1545-1549

  Korkmaz, Mustafa ^a,c   Ozbagci, Burak ^b  

^a MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

4 manifolds; Lefschetz fibrations; Mapping class groups

Indexed keywords

EID: 23044527507     PISSN: 00029939     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1090/s0002-9939-00-05676-8     Document Type: Article

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