A "Tits-Alternative" for Subgroups of Surface Mapping Class Groups

DOI10.2307/2000100zbMath0579.57006OpenAlexW4244977533MaRDI QIDQ3702158

John D. McCarthy

Publication date: 1985

Published in: Transactions of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.2307/2000100

zbMATH Keywords

nonabelian free groupgeodesic laminationspseudo-Anosov mapping classesabelian subgroup of finite indexprojective lamination spacessubgroup of the mapping class group of a closed orientable surfacesurface mapping classestrain tracks on surfaces

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Other groups related to topology or analysis (20F38) Fundamental groups and their automorphisms (group-theoretic aspects) (20F34) Differential topological aspects of diffeomorphisms (57R50)

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