Irreducible Sp-representations and subgroup distortion in the mapping class group

DOI10.4171/CMH/233zbMath1295.57021arXiv0707.2262MaRDI QIDQ550548

Benson Farb, Andrew Putman, Nathan Broaddus

Publication date: 12 July 2011

Published in: Commentarii Mathematici Helvetici (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0707.2262

zbMATH Keywords

mapping class groupTorelli groupJohnson homomorphismsubgroup distortionsymplectic representation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geometric group theory (20F65) General low-dimensional topology (57M99) Asymptotic properties of groups (20F69)

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