Resolution of the canonical fiber metrics for a lefschetz fibration

We consider the family of constant curvature fiber metrics for a Lefschetz fibration with regular fibers of genus greater than one. A result of Obitsu and Wolpert is refined by showing that on an appropriate resolution of the total space, constructed by iterated blow-up, this family is log-smooth, i...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Melrose, Richard B, Zhu, Xuwen
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mathematics
Format: Article
Published: International Press of Boston, Inc. 2018
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/116107
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1494-8228
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Summary:We consider the family of constant curvature fiber metrics for a Lefschetz fibration with regular fibers of genus greater than one. A result of Obitsu and Wolpert is refined by showing that on an appropriate resolution of the total space, constructed by iterated blow-up, this family is log-smooth, i.e., polyhomogeneous with integral powers but possible multiplicities, at the preimage of the singular fibers in terms of parameters of size comparable to the logarithm of the length of the shrinking geodesic.