Existence of 2-sections for all Lefschetz fibrations

Establish whether every Lefschetz fibration over S^2 admits a 2-section.

Background

The paper proves that every Lefschetz fibration over S2 admits positive multisections of sufficiently divisible degree, with the allowable degrees determined by the divisibility of the fiber class. The authors then ask whether degree 2 always suffices. By their multisection-degree theorem, this is equivalent to asking whether the fiber-class divisibility always divides 2; primitivity of every fiber class would imply the stronger conclusion that every degree at least 2 occurs.

References

Does every Lefschetz fibration over $S2$ admit a $2$--section?

— Sections, pseudosections, and multisections of Lefschetz fibrations  (2610.01776 - Baykur et al., 1 Oct 2026) in Epilogue: existence of sections and 2-sections, Question 1