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Xiao's Genus-Two Fibration: Branched Covers and Braid Monodromy

Anar Akhmedov
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We compute the geometric monodromy factorization of Xiao's genus-two Lefschetz fibration directly from its branched-cover construction, following Moishezon's braid-monodromy method. The complete quadrangle determines the motion of the six branch points and gives four nonseparating and three separating vanishing cycles. At each of the three $3+3$ degenerations, the branch motion determines the spherical mapping class, and Xiao's local holomorphic model determines its genus-two lift. After fixing a distinguished system of paths, we obtain an ordered positive factorization of type $(4,3)$ and give Artin coordinates for the seven factors.

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Anar Akhmedov. 2026-09-15. Xiao's Genus-Two Fibration: Branched Covers and Braid Monodromy. https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.17634

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