scholarly journals Symplectic mapping class group relations generalizing the chain relation

2016 ◽  
Vol 27 (12) ◽  
pp. 1650096 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bahar Acu ◽  
Russell Avdek
Keyword(s):  
Mapping Class Group ◽  
Homogeneous Polynomial ◽  
Class Group ◽  
Symplectic Manifolds ◽  
Mapping Class ◽  
Symplectic Mapping ◽  
Group Relations ◽  
Type Boundary ◽  
Polynomial Formula ◽  
Classical Chain

In this paper, we examine mapping class group relations of some symplectic manifolds. For each [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text], we show that the [Formula: see text]-dimensional Weinstein domain [Formula: see text], determined by the degree [Formula: see text] homogeneous polynomial [Formula: see text], has a Boothby–Wang type boundary and a right-handed fibered Dehn twist along the boundary that is symplectically isotopic to a product of right-handed Dehn twists along Lagrangian spheres. We also present explicit descriptions of the symplectomorphisms in the case [Formula: see text] recovering the classical chain relation for the torus with two boundary components.

scholarly journals Viterbo’s transfer morphism for symplectomorphisms

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (01) ◽  
pp. 149-180
Author(s):  
Igor Uljarevic
Keyword(s):  
Mapping Class Group ◽  
Infinite Order ◽  
Class Group ◽  
Floer Homology ◽  
Mapping Class ◽  
Symplectic Mapping ◽  
Dimension Formula

We construct an analogue of Viterbo’s transfer morphism for Floer homology of an automorphism of a Liouville domain. As an application we prove that the Dehn–Seidel twist along any Lagrangian sphere in a Liouville domain of dimension [Formula: see text] has infinite order in the symplectic mapping class group.

Generating the Mapping Class Group

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benson Farb ◽  
Dan Margalit
Keyword(s):  
Exact Sequence ◽  
Simplicial Complex ◽  
Mapping Class Group ◽  
Class Group ◽  
Mapping Class ◽  
Detailed Structure ◽  
Inductive Step ◽  
Closed Curves ◽  
Combinatorial Object ◽  
Generating Sets

This chapter considers the Dehn–Lickorish theorem, which states that when g is greater than or equal to 0, the mapping class group Mod(Sɡ) is generated by finitely many Dehn twists about nonseparating simple closed curves. The theorem is proved by induction on genus, and the Birman exact sequence is introduced as the key step for the induction. The key to the inductive step is to prove that the complex of curves C(Sɡ) is connected when g is greater than or equal to 2. The simplicial complex C(Sɡ) is a useful combinatorial object that encodes intersection patterns of simple closed curves in Sɡ. More detailed structure of C(Sɡ) is then used to find various explicit generating sets for Mod(Sɡ), including those due to Lickorish and to Humphries.

scholarly journals The local-to-global property for Morse quasi-geodesics

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jacob Russell ◽  
Davide Spriano ◽  
Hung Cong Tran
Keyword(s):  
Mapping Class Group ◽  
Class Group ◽  
Type Theorem ◽  
Hyperbolic Groups ◽  
Global Property ◽  
Mapping Class ◽  
Relatively Hyperbolic Groups ◽  
Convex Cocompact ◽  
Relatively Hyperbolic ◽  
Translation Length

AbstractWe show the mapping class group, $${{\,\mathrm{CAT}\,}}(0)$$ CAT ( 0 ) groups, the fundamental groups of closed 3-manifolds, and certain relatively hyperbolic groups have a local-to-global property for Morse quasi-geodesics. This allows us to generalize combination theorems of Gitik for quasiconvex subgroups of hyperbolic groups to the stable subgroups of these groups. In the case of the mapping class group, this gives combination theorems for convex cocompact subgroups. We show a number of additional consequences of this local-to-global property, including a Cartan–Hadamard type theorem for detecting hyperbolicity locally and discreteness of translation length of conjugacy classes of Morse elements with a fixed gauge. To prove the relatively hyperbolic case, we develop a theory of deep points for local quasi-geodesics in relatively hyperbolic spaces, extending work of Hruska.

scholarly journals Finiteness for mapping class group representations from twisted Dijkgraaf–Witten theory

2018 ◽  
Vol 27 (06) ◽  
pp. 1850043 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul P. Gustafson
Keyword(s):  
Braid Group ◽  
Mapping Class Group ◽  
Class Group ◽  
Braid Groups ◽  
Fusion Category ◽  
Mapping Class ◽  
Group Representations ◽  
Colored Graphs ◽  
Finite Image ◽  
Spanning Set

We show that any twisted Dijkgraaf–Witten representation of a mapping class group of an orientable, compact surface with boundary has finite image. This generalizes work of Etingof et al. showing that the braid group images are finite [P. Etingof, E. C. Rowell and S. Witherspoon, Braid group representations from twisted quantum doubles of finite groups, Pacific J. Math. 234 (2008)(1) 33–42]. In particular, our result answers their question regarding finiteness of images of arbitrary mapping class group representations in the affirmative. Our approach is to translate the problem into manipulation of colored graphs embedded in the given surface. To do this translation, we use the fact that any twisted Dijkgraaf–Witten representation associated to a finite group [Formula: see text] and 3-cocycle [Formula: see text] is isomorphic to a Turaev–Viro–Barrett–Westbury (TVBW) representation associated to the spherical fusion category [Formula: see text] of twisted [Formula: see text]-graded vector spaces. The representation space for this TVBW representation is canonically isomorphic to a vector space of [Formula: see text]-colored graphs embedded in the surface [A. Kirillov, String-net model of Turaev-Viro invariants, Preprint (2011), arXiv:1106.6033 ]. By analyzing the action of the Birman generators [J. Birman, Mapping class groups and their relationship to braid groups, Comm. Pure Appl. Math. 22 (1969) 213–242] on a finite spanning set of colored graphs, we find that the mapping class group acts by permutations on a slightly larger finite spanning set. This implies that the representation has finite image.

AUTOMORPHISMS OF BRAID GROUPS ON S2, T2, P2 AND THE KLEIN BOTTLE K

2008 ◽  
Vol 17 (01) ◽  
pp. 47-53 ◽  
Author(s):  
PING ZHANG
Keyword(s):  
Braid Group ◽  
Mapping Class Group ◽  
Class Group ◽  
Klein Bottle ◽  
Closed Surface ◽  
Group Extension ◽  
Braid Groups ◽  
Mapping Class ◽  
Group B ◽  
Central Automorphisms

It is shown that for the braid group Bn(M) on a closed surface M of nonnegative Euler characteristic, Out (Bn(M)) is isomorphic to a group extension of the group of central automorphisms of Bn(M) by the extended mapping class group of M, with an explicit and complete description of Aut (Bn(S2)), Aut (Bn(P2)), Out (Bn(S2)) and Out (Bn(P2)).

ON POWERS OF HALF-TWISTS IN M(0, 2n)

2017 ◽  
Vol 60 (2) ◽  
pp. 333-338 ◽  
Author(s):  
GREGOR MASBAUM
Keyword(s):  
Mapping Class Group ◽  
Class Group ◽  
Normal Closure ◽  
Mapping Class ◽  
Infinite Index ◽  
Skein Theory ◽  
Half Twist

AbstractWe use elementary skein theory to prove a version of a result of Stylianakis (Stylianakis, The normal closure of a power of a half-twist has infinite index in the mapping class group of a punctured sphere, arXiv:1511.02912) who showed that under mild restrictions on m and n, the normal closure of the mth power of a half-twist has infinite index in the mapping class group of a sphere with 2n punctures.

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