A primer on mapping class groups

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Authors Benson Farb, Dan Margalit

Publication date 19 October 2011

zbMATH Keywords

Dehn twistmapping class groupmoduli spacepseudo-Anosov theoryRiemann surfacesTeichmüller spaceTorelli group

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Families, moduli of curves (analytic) (14H15) Braid groups; Artin groups (20F36) Other groups related to topology or analysis (20F38) Introductory exposition (textbooks, tutorial papers, etc.) pertaining to functions of a complex variable (30-01) Compact Riemann surfaces and uniformization (30F10) Teichmüller theory for Riemann surfaces (30F60) Moduli of Riemann surfaces, Teichmüller theory (complex-analytic aspects in several variables) (32G15) Introductory exposition (textbooks, tutorial papers, etc.) pertaining to manifolds and cell complexes (57-01) Topological methods in group theory (57M07)

Recommendations

• A brief introduction to mapping class groups
• Mapping class groups
• Introduction to mapping class groups of surfaces and related groups
• Lectures on the mapping class group of a surface
• Mapping class groups

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• Symplectic structures on right-angled Artin groups: between the mapping class group and the symplectic group.
• A presentation of the mapping class groups
• On the Lego-Teichmüller game
• On the complexity of finite subgraphs of the curve graph
• Isomorphisms between curve graphs of infinite-type surfaces are geometric
• Irreducibility of quantum representations of mapping class groups with boundary
• The monodromy of T-folds and T-fects
• The holomorphic couch theorem
• Singular levels and topological invariants of Morse-Bott foliations on non-orientable surfaces
• The mathematics of taffy pullers
• On the geometry of graphs associated to infinite-type surfaces
• Teichmüller theory and collapse of flat manifolds
• Generating mapping class groups with elements of fixed finite order
• Bad irreducible subgroups and singular locus for character varieties in \(\mathrm{PSL}(p,\mathbb {C})\)
• A normal generating set for the Torelli group of a compact non-orientable surface
• The \(p\)-curvature conjecture and monodromy around simple closed loops
• \(\epsilon\)-regularity for shrinking Ricci solitons and Ricci flows
• A note on 8-division fields of elliptic curves
• Burnside problem for groups of homeomorphisms of compact surfaces
• Computing the Teichmüller polynomial
• Embedded surfaces for symplectic circle actions
• Algebraic degrees of pseudo-Anosov stretch factors
• Shortest path embeddings of graphs on surfaces
• Phases of \(\mathcal{N} = 2\) necklace quivers
• Roots of crosscap slides and crosscap transpositions
• Mapping class group orbits of curves with self-intersections
• Minimally intersecting filling pairs on the punctured surface of genus two
• A note on T-folds and \(T^3\) fibrations
• Algebraic and topological properties of big mapping class groups
• The mapping class group of a shift of finite type
• Counting closed geodesics in strata
• The Farrell-Jones conjecture for mapping class groups
• Mini-workshop: Interactions between low-dimensional topology and complex algebraic geometry. Abstracts from the mini-workshop held October 22--28, 2017
• Determining the finite subgraphs of curve graphs
• Modular groups, Hurwitz classes and dynamic portraits of NET maps
• Nonholomorphic Lefschetz fibrations with \((-1)\)-sections
• Classification of Rauzy-Veech groups: proof of the Zorich conjecture
• Monodromy and vanishing cycles in toric surfaces
• Translation lengths of parabolic isometries of CAT(0) spaces and their applications
• On the geography and botany of knot Floer homology
• Hyperbolic-parabolic deformations of rational maps
• Coordinates for the moduli space of flat PSL\((2,\mathbb{R})\)-connections
• On sections of hyperelliptic Lefschetz fibrations
• Right-angled Artin groups and a generalized isomorphism problem for finitely generated subgroups of mapping class groups
• RAAGs in Ham
• Homomorphisms between mapping class groups
• Braid groups and Hodge theory
• Embeddability between right-angled Artin groups..
• A note on stable Teichmüller quasigeodesics
• An algebraic formulation of Thurston's characterization of rational functions
• Centralizers of finite subgroups of the mapping class group.
• Some lower bounds on Shelah rank in the free group
• Presentations of cluster modular groups and generation by cluster Dehn twists
• Characteristic classes of fiberwise branched surface bundles via arithmetic groups
• Mixed tête-à-tête twists as monodromies associated with holomorphic function germs
• Equidistribution of families of expanding horospheres on moduli spaces of hyperbolic surfaces
• The maximal injectivity radius of hyperbolic surfaces with geodesic boundary
• The mapping class group is generated by two commutators
• Least dilatation of pure surface braids
• The geometry of maximal components of the \(\mathsf{PSp}(4, \mathbb{R})\) character variety
• Hopf bands in arborescent Hopf plumbings
• On branched minimal immersions of surfaces by first eigenfunctions
• Open conformal cobordisms
• C-vectors and non-self-crossing curves for acyclic quivers of finite type
• Counting square-tiled surfaces with prescribed real and imaginary foliations and connections to Mirzakhani's asymptotics for simple closed hyperbolic geodesics
• The minimally displaced set of an irreducible automorphism of \(F_N\) is co-compact
• Isotopic tiling theory for hyperbolic surfaces
• Genus-3 Lefschetz fibrations and exotic 4-manifolds with b₂^+=3
• Orientable quadratic equations in free metabelian groups
• The congruence subgroup problem for the free metabelian group on \(n\geq 4\) generators
• Classification of pro-\(p\mathrm{PD}^2\) pairs and the pro-\(p\) curve complex
• Random veering triangulations are not geometric
• Origami edge-paths in the curve graph
• Promoting circular-orderability to left-orderability
• Arcs on punctured disks intersecting at most twice with endpoints on the boundary
• Generic free subgroups and statistical hyperbolicity
• Short geodesic loops and \(L^p\) norms of eigenfunctions on large genus random surfaces
• Automorphisms of symmetric groups are toy examples for mapping class groups
• Mapping class groups, multiple Kodaira fibrations, and CAT(0) spaces
• On the Morse index of branched Willmore spheres in 3-space
• A conjecture on the lengths of filling pairs
• Rationality is decidable for nearly Euclidean Thurston maps
• Stars at infinity in Teichmüller space
• Simplifying triangulations
• Orbifolds having Euler number zero Heegaard decomposition
• The universal surface bundle over the Torelli space has no sections
• Meta-nilpotent quotients of mapping-torus groups and two topological invariants of quadratic forms
• Higher spin mapping class groups and strata of abelian differentials over Teichmüller space
• Artin groups of types \(F_4\) and \(H_4\) are not commensurable with that of type \(D_4\)
• Unknotting annuli and handlebody-knot symmetry
• Some evidence for the Coleman-Oort conjecture
• One can't hear orientability of surfaces
• Embeddings and the (virtual) cohomological dimension of the braid and mapping class groups of surfaces
• Automorphisms of character varieties
• Generating the spin mapping class group by Dehn twists
• Uniformizing surfaces via discrete harmonic maps
• Infinitely many Lagrangian fillings
• Mapping class groups with the Rokhlin property
• Bourgeois contact structures: tightness, fillability and applications
• Topological inductive constructions for tight surface graphs

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