%0 Journal Article %T Signatures of Lefschetz fibrations %A Burak Ozbagci %J Mathematics %D 1998 %I arXiv %X Let M be a smooth 4-manifold which admits a genus g Lefschetz fibration over D^2 or S^2. We develop a technique to compute the signature of M using the global monodromy of this fibration. %U http://arxiv.org/abs/math/9809178v2