On sections of maps from 4-manifolds to the 2-sphere

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Main Author: Gompf, Robert E.
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contents This note exhibits singular fibrations over the 2-sphere whose regular fibers are connected surfaces of arbitrarily high genus, but which admit no sections. These include achiral Lefschetz fibrations, as well as generic maps for which some disks cannot lift to sections -- in fact, neither hemisphere lifts.
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spellingShingle On sections of maps from 4-manifolds to the 2-sphere
Gompf, Robert E.
Geometric Topology
57K40
This note exhibits singular fibrations over the 2-sphere whose regular fibers are connected surfaces of arbitrarily high genus, but which admit no sections. These include achiral Lefschetz fibrations, as well as generic maps for which some disks cannot lift to sections -- in fact, neither hemisphere lifts.
title On sections of maps from 4-manifolds to the 2-sphere
topic Geometric Topology
57K40
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.18066