Symplectic Lefschetz fibrations with arbitrary fundamental groups
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In this paper we give an explicit construction of a symplectic Lefschetz fibration whose total space is a smooth compact four dimensional manifold with a prescribed fundamental group. We also study the numerical properties of the sections in symplectic Lefschetz fibrations and their relation to the structure of the monodromy group. Partially supported by DGYCYT grant PB96-0234 Partially supported by NSF Grant DMS-9801591 Partially supported by NSF Grant DMS9700605 and A.P. Sloan research fellowship Partially supported by NSF Grant DMS-9800790
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