Trisections and Lefschetz fibrations with $(-n)$-sections

Abstract

Castro and Ozbagci constructed a trisection of a closed 4-manifold admitting a Lefschetz fibration with a $(-1)$-section such that the corresponding trisection diagram can be explicitly constructed from a monodromy of the Lefschetz fibration. In this paper, for a closed 4-manifold $X$ admitting an achiral Lefschetz fibration with a $(-n)$-section, we construct a trisection of $X\#n\mathbb{C}{P}^2$ if $n$ is positive and $X\#(-n)\overline{\mathbb{C}{P}^2}$ if $n$ is negative such that the corresponding trisection diagram can be explicitly constructed from a monodromy of the Lefschetz fibration. We also construct a trisection of the fiber sum of two achiral Lefschetz fibrations with $n$- and $(-n)$-sections such that the corresponding trisection diagram can be explicitly constructed from monodromies of the Lefschetz fibrations.

27 pages, 26 figures