A degree doubling formula for braid monodromies and Lefschetz pencils

dc.creatorAuroux, Denis
dc.creatorKatzarkov, Ludmil
dc.date2006-04-28
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T07:13:46Z
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dc.descriptionEvery compact symplectic 4-manifold can be realized as a branched cover of the complex projective plane branched along a symplectic curve with cusp and node singularities; the covering map is induced by a triple of sections of a "very ample" line bundle. In this paper, we give an explicit formula describing the behavior of the braid monodromy invariants of the branch curve upon degree doubling of the linear system (from a very ample bundle $L^k$ to $L^{2k}$). As a consequence, we derive a similar degree doubling formula for the mapping class group monodromy of Donaldson's symplectic Lefschetz pencils.
dc.description65 pages; revised version of a preprint that has been in limited circulation since 2000, with improved exposition
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/math/0605001
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/math/0605001
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/112599
dc.subjectSymplectic Geometry
dc.subjectAlgebraic Geometry
dc.subjectGeometric Topology
dc.titleA degree doubling formula for braid monodromies and Lefschetz pencils
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