## Tohoku Mathematical Journal

### A local signature for fibered 4-manifolds with a finite group action

Masatoshi Sato

#### Abstract

Let $p$ be a finite regular covering on a 2-sphere with at least three branch points. In this paper, we construct a local signature for the class of fibered 4-manifolds whose general fibers are isomorphic to the covering $p$.

#### Article information

Source
Tohoku Math. J. (2), Volume 65, Number 4 (2013), 545-568.

Dates
First available in Project Euclid: 6 December 2013

https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.tmj/1386354295

Digital Object Identifier
doi:10.2748/tmj/1386354295

Mathematical Reviews number (MathSciNet)
MR3161433

Zentralblatt MATH identifier
1297.57051

#### Citation

Sato, Masatoshi. A local signature for fibered 4-manifolds with a finite group action. Tohoku Math. J. (2) 65 (2013), no. 4, 545--568. doi:10.2748/tmj/1386354295. https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.tmj/1386354295

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