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arxiv: math/0109011 · v4 · submitted 2001-09-03 · 🧮 math.GT · math.AT· math.SG

Lefschetz fibrations with unbounded Euler class

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We investigate the bounded cohomology of Lefschetz fibrations. If a Lefschetz fibration has regular fiber of genus at least 2 and it has at least two distinct vanishing cycles, we show that its Euler class is not bounded. As a consequence, we exclude the existence of negatively curved metrics on Lefschetz fibrations with more than one singular fiber.

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