Chart description for hyperelliptic Lefschetz fibrations and their stabilization

Nom de l'orateur
Hisaaki Endo
Etablissement de l'orateur
Tokyo Institute of Technology
Date et heure de l'exposé

Chart descriptions are a graphic method to describe monodromy representations of various topological objects. Here we introduce a chart description for hyperelliptic Lefschetz fibrations, and show that any hyperelliptic Lefschetz fibration can be stabilized by fiber-sum with certain basic Lefschetz fibrations. This is a joint work with Seiichi Kamada.