A REDUCIBILITY PROBLEM FOR MONODROMY OF SOME SURFACE BUNDLES

DOI10.1142/S0218216504003330MaRDI QIDQ5692228zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Yoichi Imayoshi, Hiroshi Yamamoto, Manabu Ito

Publication date 27 September 2005

Published in Journal of Knot Theory and Its Ramifications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1142/S0218216504003330

zbMATH Keywords

braid groupsFadell-Neuwirth sequencemonodromysurface bundlesTeichmüller spaceThurston's classification of surface automorphisms

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Braid groups; Artin groups (20F36) Classification of mappings in algebraic topology (55S37) General geometric structures on low-dimensional manifolds (57M50) General low-dimensional topology (57M99)

Review text

Let \(X\) denote an orientable closed surface of genus \(g\) with \(n\) points removed. \textit{E. Fadell} and \textit{L. Neuwirth} in [Math. Scand. 10, 111--118 (1962; Zbl 0136.44104)] defined for each integer \(n\geq 0\) a fibration \(F_1X_n \to F_{n+1}X \to F_nX\) where \(X_n=X\setminus \{x_1^0,\dots x_n^0\}\) and \(F_n\) denotes the \(n\)th configuration space. This fibration naturally defines a monodromy \(\pi_1(F_nX)\to Iso(X,n)\), where \(Iso(X,n)\) is the group of isotopy classes of orientation preserving homeomorphisms \(f:X_n \to X_n\). This work describes a relation between elements \(\beta\in\pi_1(F_nX)\) and their image \(f\in Iso(X_n)\) with respect to the Thurston classification of the surface automorphisms. More precisely using the notation above the authors show: Theorem: Let \(X\) be an oriented surface of non-excluded finite type \((g,m)\); that is, \(2g-2+m>0\). Then the element \(1\neq f\in Iso(X,n)\) is not of finite order. Further, \(f\) is reducible if and only if it can be induced by \(\beta\in \pi_1(F_nX)\) satisfying at least one of the following conditions: (i) \(\beta\) is non-spreading; (ii) \(\beta\) has a boundary partition; (iii) \(\beta\) has a tube structure over some subset in \(\{1,\dots,n\}\) which is not a singleton. One crucial step is to show, with the help of Teichmüller theory, that a mapping class \(f\in Iso(X,n)\) is reducible if it can be induced by a braid \(\beta\in \pi_1(F_nX)\) satisfying none of the conditions (i), (ii) and (iii). The paper is well organized and it provides several intuitive geometrical interpretations.

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