• Title of article

    Commutators, Lefschetz fibrations and the signatures of surface bundles

  • Author/Authors

    Endo، نويسنده , , H. and Korkmaz، نويسنده , , M. and Kotschick، نويسنده , , D. and Ozbagci، نويسنده , , B. and Stipsicz، نويسنده , , A.، نويسنده ,

  • Issue Information
    روزنامه با شماره پیاپی سال 2002
  • Pages
    17
  • From page
    961
  • To page
    977
  • Abstract
    We construct examples of Lefschetz fibrations with prescribed singular fibers. By taking differences of pairs of such fibrations with the same singular fibers, we obtain new examples of surface bundles over surfaces with nonzero signature. From these we derive new upper bounds for the minimal genus of a surface representing a given element in the second homology of a mapping class group.
  • Keywords
    Surface bundles , Lefschetz fibrations , Mapping class groups
  • Journal title
    Topology
  • Serial Year
    2002
  • Journal title
    Topology
  • Record number

    1545343