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Clustering of critical points in Lefschetz fibrations and the symplectic Szpiro inequality

V. Braungardt, D. Kotschick

math.SGarXiv:math/0204153

Abstract

We prove upper bounds for the number of critical points in semistable symplectic Lefschetz fibrations. We also obtain a new lower bound for the number of nonseparting vanishing cycles in Lefschetz pencils, and reprove the known lower bounds for the commutator lengths of Dehn twists.

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