On the signature of a Lefschetz fibration
coming from an involution
We will consider symplectic
4-manifolds as a Lefschetz fibration.
The Euler characteristic of a Lefschetz fibration is easy to compute but the signature is not easy to
compute. In the talk we will show that the signature of a Lefschetz
fibration coming from a special involution as a
product of right handed Dehn twists depends only on
the number of genus located on the involution axis. We also consider a
Lefschetz fibration coming from a finite order element of a mapping class group
as a composition of two special involutions and we investigate the geography of
such Lefschetz fibrations.