A Lefschetz fibration structure on minimal symplectic fillings of a quotient surface singularity

Date: 
Monday, 8 January, 2018 - 14:00 - 15:00
Venue: 
LSB 222
Seminar Type: 
Seminar
Speaker Name: 
Prof. Jongli PARK
Affiliation: 
Seoul National University
Abstract: 

Since it was known that any closed symplectic 4-manifold admits a Lefschetz pencil and that a Lefschetz fibration structure can be obtained from a Lefschetz pencil by blowing-up the base loci, the study of Lefschetz fibrations has become an important research theme for understanding symplectic 4-manifolds topologically. Furthermore, it is also one of active research topics in symplectic 4-manifolds to classify symplectic fillings of certain 3- manifolds equipped with a contact structure.

Among them, people have long studied symplectic fillings of the link of a quotient surface singularity. For example, P. Lisca classified symplectic fillings of cyclic quotient singularities whose corresponding link is lens space, and M. Bhupal and K. Ono classified all possible symplectic fillings of non-cyclic quotient surface singularities. And then, J. Park together with Heesang Park, Dong-soo Shin, and Giancarlo Urzu´a constructed an explicit one-to-one correspondence between the minimal symplectic fillings and the Milnor fibers of non-cyclic quotient surface singularities.

By the way, M. Bhupal and B. Ozbagci found an algorithm to present each minimal symplectic filling of a cyclic quotient sur- face singularity as an explicit positive allowable Lefschetz fibration, called PALF, structure. Furthermore they showed that each PALF structure can be obtained from the minimal resolution by monodromy substitutions which correspond to rational blow-downs topologically.

In this talk, I’d like to explain how to construct an explicit PALF structure on any minimal symplectic filling of the link of non-cyclic quotient surface singularities. This is a joint work with Hakho Choi.