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Published in Proceedings of Gökova Geometry-Topology Conference 2011
Title Lefschetz fibrations on cotangent bundles of two-manifolds
Author Joe Johns
Abstract
In this paper our aim is to explain an explicit and relatively simple construction of some symplectic Lefschetz fibrations on the disk cotangent bundle of an arbitrary compact two dimensional manifold. Morally, the construction is inspired by the idea of complexifying a given Morse function on the 2-manifold. The paper is meant to give a treatment of a simple case in [J09], with extra focus on examples and concrete constructions.
Keywords Exact symplectic Lefschetz fibrations, cotangent bundles, 2-manifolds
Pages53-84
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