## Geometry & Topology

### Symplectic Lefschetz fibrations on $S^1 \times M^3$

#### Abstract

In this paper we classify symplectic Lefschetz fibrations (with empty base locus) on a four-manifold which is the product of a three-manifold with a circle. This result provides further evidence in support of the following conjecture regarding symplectic structures on such a four-manifold: if the product of a three-manifold with a circle admits a symplectic structure, then the three-manifold must fiber over a circle, and up to a self-diffeomorphism of the four-manifold, the symplectic structure is deformation equivalent to the canonical symplectic structure determined by the fibration of the three-manifold over the circle.

#### Article information

Source
Geom. Topol., Volume 4, Number 1 (2000), 517-535.

Dates
Revised: 8 December 2000
Accepted: 17 December 2000
First available in Project Euclid: 21 December 2017

https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.gt/1513883295

Digital Object Identifier
doi:10.2140/gt.2000.4.517

Mathematical Reviews number (MathSciNet)
MR1800295

Zentralblatt MATH identifier
0968.57012

#### Citation

Chen, Weimin; Matveyev, Rostislav. Symplectic Lefschetz fibrations on $S^1 \times M^3$. Geom. Topol. 4 (2000), no. 1, 517--535. doi:10.2140/gt.2000.4.517. https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.gt/1513883295

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