A primer on mapping class groups

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Authors Benson Farb, Dan Margalit

Publication date 19 October 2011

zbMATH Keywords

moduli spacemapping class groupRiemann surfacesDehn twistTorelli groupTeichmüller spacepseudo-Anosov theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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• Quantitative recurrence and large deviations for Teichmüller geodesic flow
• Relations among characteristic classes of manifold bundles
• Braid group actions on branched coverings and full exceptional sequences
• ON TOPOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION OF FINITE CYCLIC ACTIONS ON BORDERED SURFACES
• On the stable Andreadakis problem
• Harmonic tropical morphisms and approximation
• The mapping class group of a shift of finite type
• Any Baumslag-Solitar action on surfaces with a pseudo-Anosov element has a finite orbit
• Incompleteness of the pressure metric on the Teichmüller space of a bordered surface
• The 2-width of embedded 3-manifolds
• A family of non-injective skinning maps with critical points
• Perverse sheaves on Riemann surfaces as Milnor sheaves
• The Markov gap for geometric reflected entropy
• Flat grafting deformations of quadratic differentials on surfaces
• Dimension and trace of the Kauffman bracket skein algebra
• Centers of subgroups of big mapping class groups and the Tits alternative
• Least dilatation of pure surface braids
• Section problems for configuration spaces of surfaces
• Presentations of cluster modular groups and generation by cluster Dehn twists
• Some lower bounds on Shelah rank in the free group
• Symplectic structures on right-angled Artin groups: between the mapping class group and the symplectic group.
• Self-intersecting filling curves on surfaces
• GROTHENDIECK'S RECONSTRUCTION PRINCIPLE AND 2-DIMENSIONAL TOPOLOGY AND GEOMETRY
• 2-chains and square roots of Thompson's group \(F\)
• Hyperbolic geometry and closed bosonic string field theory. II: The rules for evaluating the quantum BV master action
• On quasihomomorphisms with noncommutative targets.
• Khovanov homology and the cinquefoil
• Handle operators in string theory
• Roots of Alexander polynomials of random positive 3-braids
• Torus knotted Reeb dynamics and the Calabi invariant
• An analytic family of representations for the mapping class group of punctured surfaces
• Representing infinite periodic hyperbolic Delaunay triangulations using finitely many Dirichlet domains
• Fully essential dynamics for area-preserving surface homeomorphisms
• On the topology of \(\mathcal{H}(2)\)
• DAHA and skein algebra of surfaces: double-torus knots
• Conjugacy class of homeomorphisms and distortion elements in groups of homeomorphisms
• Embeddings and the (virtual) cohomological dimension of the braid and mapping class groups of surfaces
• The level four braid group
• Some properties of Pin\({}^\pm\)-structures on compact surfaces
• On the algebraic K-theory of mapping class groups and of the 5 string-braid group of the sphere
• Systole growth for finite area hyperbolic surfaces
• Quadratic equations in the Grigorchuk group.
• A complete invariant for connected surfaces in the 3-sphere
• Lectures on the mapping class group of a surface
• Mapping class group representations from non-semisimple TQFTs
• Recognizing topological polynomials by lifting trees
• Centralizers of finite subgroups of the mapping class group.
• Laurent phenomenon algebras arising from surfaces. II: Laminated surfaces
• Small asymptotic translation lengths of pseudo-Anosov maps on the curve complex
• Automorphisms of braid groups on orientable surfaces.
• Geometric realizations of cyclic actions on surfaces. II
• The maximal injectivity radius of hyperbolic surfaces with geodesic boundary
• Riemann surfaces of second kind and effective finiteness theorems
• Essential open book foliations and fractional Dehn twist coefficient
• Uniform hyperbolicity of the graphs of curves
• A generalization of perfectly clustering words and band bricks for certain gentle algebras
• The Smale conjecture and min-max theory
• Convex cocompactness in mapping class groups via quasiconvexity in right-angled Artin groups
• Low‐dimensional linear representations of mapping class groups
• Quasi-morphisms on surface diffeomorphism groups
• Bers' simultaneous uniformization and the intersection of Poincaré holonomy varieties
• GOE statistics on the moduli space of surfaces of large genus
• Counterexamples to the nonsimply connected double soul conjecture
• Higher finiteness properties of braided groups
• A braid group action on an A_-category for zigzag algebras
• Connectedness properties of the space of complete nonnegatively curved planes
• Generating the Johnson filtration
• Spheres and projections for \(\mathrm{Out}(F_{n})\)
• Birman-Hilden theory for 3-manifolds
• Unexpected Stein fillings, rational surface singularities and plane curve arrangements
• Characteristic classes of fiberwise branched surface bundles via arithmetic groups
• Aspherical 4-manifolds of odd Euler characteristic
• The Rohlin invariant and \(\mathbb{Z}/2\)-valued invariants of homology spheres
• Nearly euclidean Thurston maps
• \(z\)-classes in the mapping class group
• Borromean rays and hyperplanes
• Johnson-Morita theory in mapping class groups and monoids of homology cobordisms of surfaces
• The Weil-Petersson geodesic flow is ergodic
• Trisections induced by the Gluck surgery along certain spun knots
• Entropy of singular suspensions
• Symplectic \((-2)\)-spheres and the symplectomorphism group of small rational 4-manifolds. II
• Arithmetic mirror symmetry for genus 1 curves with n marked points
• Unsmoothable group actions on compact one-manifolds
• On the geography and botany of knot Floer homology
• Modular group representations in combinatorial quantization with non-semisimple Hopf algebras
• The marked length spectrum of Anosov manifolds
• Separating subgroups of mapping class groups in homological representations
• The Ruelle zeta function at zero for nearly hyperbolic 3-manifolds
• Mapping class groups
• A local to global argument on low dimensional manifolds
• Marked length spectrum rigidity for Anosov surfaces
• Establishing strongly-coupled 3D AdS quantum gravity with Ising dual using all-genus partition functions
• Quasiconformal homogeneity of genus zero surfaces
• Isometric embeddings of Teichmüller spaces don't extend to the Gardiner-Masur compactification
• Smooth models for certain fibered partially hyperbolic systems
• Endomorphisms of Artin groups of type B_n
• Endomorphisms of Artin groups of type \(\widetilde{A}_n\)
• Isotopy and homeomorphism of closed surface braids
• Systole length in hyperbolic \(n\)-manifolds
• Fixed subgroups are compressed in surface groups

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