Department of Mathematics, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California 92697 ; Department of Analysis, ELTE TTK, Múzeum krt. 6-8, Budapest, Hungary
Abstract:
We construct noncomplex smooth 4-manifolds which admit genus-2 Lefschetz fibrations over . The fibrations are necessarily hyperelliptic, and the resulting 4-manifolds are not even homotopy equivalent to complex surfaces. Furthermore, these examples show that fiber sums of holomorphic Lefschetz fibrations do not necessarily admit complex structures.