A chord diagrammatic presentation of the mapping class group of a once bordered surface

DOI10.1007/S10711-009-9395-9zbMATH Open1214.57019arXiv0802.2747OpenAlexW2096501320MaRDI QIDQ849379FDOQ849379

Alex James Bene

Publication date: 25 February 2010

Published in: Geometriae Dedicata (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The Ptolemy groupoid is a combinatorial groupoid generated by elementary moves on marked trivalent fatgraphs with three types of relations. Through the fatgraph decomposition of Teichm"uller space, the Ptolemy groupoid is a mapping class group equivariant subgroupoid of the fundamental path groupoid of Teichm"uller space with a discrete set objects. In particular, it leads to an infinite, but combinatorially simple, presentation of the mapping class group of an orientable surface. In this note, we give a presentation of a full mapping class group equivariant subgroupoid of the Ptolemy groupoid of an orientable surface with one boundary component in terms of marked linear chord diagrams, with chord slides as generators and five types of relations. We also introduce a dual version of this presentation which has advantages for certain applications, one of which is given.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0802.2747

zbMATH Keywords

presentation[https://portal.mardi4nfdi.de/w/index.php?title=+Special%3ASearch&search=Teichm%EF%BF%BD%EF%BF%BDller+space&go=Go Teichm��ller space]mapping class groupfatgraphorientable surfacePtolemy groupoid

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Graphs and abstract algebra (groups, rings, fields, etc.) (05C25) Families, moduli of curves (algebraic) (14H10) Moduli of Riemann surfaces, Teichmüller theory (complex-analytic aspects in several variables) (32G15) Fundamental groups and their automorphisms (group-theoretic aspects) (20F34) Other groups related to topology or analysis (20F38) General low-dimensional topology (57M99) Special aspects of infinite or finite groups (20F99)

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Cited In (10)

• Computing \(\widehat {HF}\) by factoring mapping
• Groupoid extensions of mapping class representations for bordered surfaces
• Finite type invariants and fatgraphs
• Mapping class group actions from Hopf monoids and ribbon graphs
• Bimodules in bordered Heegaard Floer homology
• Bordered Floer homology and incompressible surfaces
• Mapping class factorization via fatgraph Nielsen reduction
• Notes on Bordered Floer Homology
• Tour of bordered Floer theory
• Batalin-Vilkovisky structures on moduli spaces of flat connections

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