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1999 Spring Topology Conference
March 18-20, 1999
University of Utah
Salt Lake City, UT, USA

Organizers
Mladen Bestvina, Greg Conner, Misha Kapovich, Bruce Kleiner

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Signatures of Lefschetz Fibrations
by
Burak Ozbagci
UC Irvine

Let M be a smooth 4-manifold which admits a Lefschetz fibration over D2 or S2. We develop a technique to compute the signature of M using the global monodromy of this fibration.

Date received: January 20, 1999

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