Lefschetz fibrations on compact Stein surfaces
Geometry & TopologyPublished 25 March 2001Open access
Selman Akbulut, Burak Özbağcı
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Abstract
Let M be a compact Stein surface with boundary. We show that M admits infinitely many pairwise nonequivalent positive allowable Lefschetz fibrations over D 2 with bounded fibers.
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