We produce simply-connected, minimal, symplectic Lefschetz fibrations realizing all the lattice points in the symplectic geography plane below the Noether line. This provides asymplecticextension of the classical works populating the complex geography plane with holomorphic Lefschetz fibrations. Our examples are obtained by rationally blowing down Lefschetz fibrations with clustered nodal fibers, the total spaces of which are potentially new homotopy elliptic surfaces. Similarly, clustering nodal fibers on higher genera Lefschetz fibrations on standard rational surfaces, we get rational blowdown configurations that yield new constructions of small symplectic exotic –manifolds. We present an example of a construction of a minimal symplectic exotic through this procedure applied to a genus– fibration.
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A note on surfaces in ℂℙ² and ℂℙ²#ℂℙ²
In this brief note, we investigate the -genus of knots, i.e., the least genus of a smooth, compact, orientable surface in bounded by a knot in . We show that this quantity is unbounded, unlike its topological counterpart. We also investigate the -genus of torus knots. We apply these results to improve the minimal genus bound for some homology classes in .
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- Award ID(s):
- 1928930
- PAR ID:
- 10600436
- Publisher / Repository:
- AMS
- Date Published:
- Journal Name:
- Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society, Series B
- Volume:
- 11
- Issue:
- 18
- ISSN:
- 2330-1511
- Page Range / eLocation ID:
- 187 to 199
- Format(s):
- Medium: X
- Sponsoring Org:
- National Science Foundation
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