scholarly journals Generating the mapping class groups by torsions

2017 ◽  
Vol 26 (07) ◽  
pp. 1750037
Author(s):  
Xiaoming Du
Keyword(s):  
Mapping Class Group ◽  
Class Group ◽  
Mapping Class Groups ◽  
Mapping Class ◽  
Class Groups ◽  
Oriented Surface ◽  
Genus Formula ◽  
Closed Oriented Surface

Let [Formula: see text] be a closed oriented surface of genus [Formula: see text] and let [Formula: see text] be the mapping class group. When the genus is at least 3, [Formula: see text] can be generated by torsion elements. We prove the following results: For [Formula: see text], [Formula: see text] can be generated by four torsion elements. Three generators are involutions and the fourth one is an order three element. [Formula: see text] can be generated by five torsion elements. Four generators are involutions and the fifth one is an order three element.

scholarly journals Nilpotency and triviality of mod p Morita-Mumford classes of mapping class groups of surfaces

2002 ◽  
Vol 165 ◽  
pp. 1-22 ◽  
Author(s):  
Toshiyuki Akita
Keyword(s):  
Mapping Class Group ◽  
Class Group ◽  
Mapping Class Groups ◽  
Mapping Class ◽  
Supporting Evidence ◽  
Class Groups ◽  
Oriented Surface ◽  
Closed Oriented Surface ◽  
Mod P

This paper is concerned with mod p Morita-Mumford classes of the mapping class group Γg of a closed oriented surface of genus g ≥ 2, especially triviality and nontriviality of them. It is proved that is nilpotent if n ≡ − 1 (mod p − 1), while the stable mod p Morita-Mumford class is proved to be nontrivial and not nilpotent if n ≢ −1 (mod p − 1). With these results in mind, we conjecture that vanishes whenever n ≡ − 1 (mod p − 1), and obtain a few pieces of supporting evidence.

scholarly journals The extended mapping class group can be generated by two torsions

2017 ◽  
Vol 26 (11) ◽  
pp. 1750061
Author(s):  
Xiaoming Du
Keyword(s):  
Mapping Class Group ◽  
Class Group ◽  
The Other ◽  
Mapping Class ◽  
Oriented Surface ◽  
Genus Formula ◽  
Extended Mapping ◽  
Closed Oriented Surface

Let [Formula: see text] be the closed-oriented surface of genus [Formula: see text] and let [Formula: see text] be the extended mapping class group of [Formula: see text]. When the genus is at least 5, we prove that [Formula: see text] can be generated by two torsion elements. One of these generators is of order [Formula: see text], and the other one is of order [Formula: see text].

scholarly journals Separating subgroups of mapping class groups in homological representations

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-15
Author(s):  
Asaf Hadari
Keyword(s):  
Automorphism Group ◽  
Mapping Class Group ◽  
Class Group ◽  
Mapping Class Groups ◽  
Representation Formula ◽  
Closed Surface ◽  
Mapping Class ◽  
Finite Cover ◽  
Class Groups ◽  
Genus Formula

Let [Formula: see text] be either the mapping class group of a closed surface of genus [Formula: see text], or the automorphism group of a free group of rank [Formula: see text]. Given any homological representation [Formula: see text] of [Formula: see text] corresponding to a finite cover, and any term [Formula: see text] of the Johnson filtration, we show that [Formula: see text] has finite index in [Formula: see text], the Torelli subgroup of [Formula: see text]. Since [Formula: see text] for [Formula: see text], this implies for instance that no such representation is faithful.

scholarly journals Right-angled Artin groups as normal subgroups of mapping class groups

2021 ◽  
Vol 157 (8) ◽  
pp. 1807-1852
Author(s):  
Matt Clay ◽  
Johanna Mangahas ◽  
Dan Margalit
Keyword(s):  
Mapping Class Group ◽  
Class Group ◽  
Mapping Class Groups ◽  
Braid Groups ◽  
Mapping Class ◽  
Artin Groups ◽  
Normal Subgroups ◽  
Class Groups ◽  
Right Angled Artin Groups ◽  
Proper Normal Subgroup

We construct the first examples of normal subgroups of mapping class groups that are isomorphic to non-free right-angled Artin groups. Our construction also gives normal, non-free right-angled Artin subgroups of other groups, such as braid groups and pure braid groups, as well as many subgroups of the mapping class group, such as the Torelli subgroup. Our work recovers and generalizes the seminal result of Dahmani–Guirardel–Osin, which gives free, purely pseudo-Anosov normal subgroups of mapping class groups. We give two applications of our methods: (1) we produce an explicit proper normal subgroup of the mapping class group that is not contained in any level $m$ congruence subgroup and (2) we produce an explicit example of a pseudo-Anosov mapping class with the property that all of its even powers have free normal closure and its odd powers normally generate the entire mapping class group. The technical theorem at the heart of our work is a new version of the windmill apparatus of Dahmani–Guirardel–Osin, which is tailored to the setting of group actions on the projection complexes of Bestvina–Bromberg–Fujiwara.

scholarly journals Big mapping class groups are not acylindrically hyperbolic

2018 ◽  
Vol 68 (1) ◽  
pp. 71-76 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juliette Bavard ◽  
Anthony Genevois
Keyword(s):  
Mapping Class Group ◽  
Class Group ◽  
Mapping Class Groups ◽  
Mapping Class ◽  
Class Groups ◽  
Infinite Type

AbstractWe give a criterion to prove that some groups are not acylindrically hyperbolic. As an application, we prove that the mapping class group of an infinite type surface is not acylindrically hyperbolic.

scholarly journals IRREDUCIBILITY OF SOME QUANTUM REPRESENTATIONS OF MAPPING CLASS GROUPS

2001 ◽  
Vol 10 (05) ◽  
pp. 763-767 ◽  
Author(s):  
JUSTIN ROBERTS
Keyword(s):  
Mapping Class Group ◽  
Prime Order ◽  
Class Group ◽  
Mapping Class Groups ◽  
Closed Surface ◽  
Mapping Class ◽  
Class Groups ◽  
Root Of Unity

The SU(2) TQFT representation of the mapping class group of a closed surface of genus g, at a root of unity of prime order, is shown to be irreducible. Some examples of reducible representations are also given.

scholarly journals Mapping class groups of highly connected $$(4k+2)$$-manifolds

2020 ◽  
Vol 26 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Manuel Krannich
Keyword(s):  
Automorphism Group ◽  
Mapping Class Group ◽  
Class Group ◽  
Mapping Class Groups ◽  
Mapping Class ◽  
Class Groups

AbstractWe compute the mapping class group of the manifolds $$\sharp ^g(S^{2k+1}\times S^{2k+1})$$ ♯ g ( S 2 k + 1 × S 2 k + 1 ) for $$k>0$$ k > 0 in terms of the automorphism group of the middle homology and the group of homotopy $$(4k+3)$$ ( 4 k + 3 ) -spheres. We furthermore identify its Torelli subgroup, determine the abelianisations, and relate our results to the group of homotopy equivalences of these manifolds.

Braid Groups

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benson Farb ◽  
Dan Margalit
Keyword(s):  
Braid Group ◽  
Mapping Class Group ◽  
Class Group ◽  
Mapping Class Groups ◽  
Braid Groups ◽  
Mapping Class ◽  
Class Groups ◽  
Closed Surfaces ◽  
Pictorial Representations ◽  
Marked Points

This chapter introduces the reader to Artin's classical braid groups Bₙ. The group Bₙ is isomorphic to the mapping class group of a disk with n marked points. Since disks are planar, the braid groups lend themselves to special pictorial representations. This gives the theory of braid groups its own special flavor within the theory of mapping class groups. The chapter begins with a discussion of three equivalent ways of thinking about the braid group, focusing on Artin's classical definition, fundamental groups of configuration spaces, and the mapping class group of a punctured disk. It then presents some classical facts about the algebraic structure of the braid group, after which a new proof of the Birman–Hilden theorem is given to relate the braid groups to the mapping class groups of closed surfaces.

scholarly journals The quotient of a Kauffman bracket skein algebra by the square of an augmentation ideal

2017 ◽  
Vol 26 (05) ◽  
pp. 1750030
Author(s):  
Shunsuke Tsuji
Keyword(s):  
Mapping Class Group ◽  
Class Group ◽  
Mapping Class ◽  
Augmentation Ideal ◽  
Oriented Surface ◽  
Kauffman Bracket ◽  
Genus Formula

We give an explicit basis [Formula: see text] of the quotient of the Kauffman bracket skein algebra [Formula: see text] on a surface [Formula: see text] by the square of an augmentation ideal. Moreover, we construct an embedding of the mapping class group of a compact connected oriented surface of genus [Formula: see text] into the Kauffman bracket skein algebra on the surface completed with respect to a filtration coming from the augmentation ideal.

scholarly journals On stable commutator lengths of Dehn twists along separating curves

2017 ◽  
Vol 26 (10) ◽  
pp. 1750056 ◽  
Author(s):  
Naoyuki Monden ◽  
Kazuya Yoshihara
Keyword(s):  
Mapping Class Group ◽  
Class Group ◽  
Upper Bounds ◽  
Mapping Class ◽  
Oriented Surface ◽  
Dehn Twists ◽  
Closed Oriented Surface

We give new upper bounds on the stable commutator lengths of Dehn twists along separating curves in the mapping class group of a closed oriented surface. The estimates of these upper bounds are [Formula: see text], where [Formula: see text] is the genus of the surface.

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