Abstract commensurators of right-angled Artin groups and mapping class groups.

DOI10.4310/MRL.2014.V21.N3.A4MaRDI QIDQ477935zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Matt T. Clay, Christopher J. Leininger, Dan Margalit

Publication date 10 December 2014

Published in Mathematical Research Letters (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1307.8387

zbMATH Keywords

abstract commensuratorsfinite subgroupsmapping class groupsquasi-isometric rigidityright-angled Artin groups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Subgroup theorems; subgroup growth (20E07) Braid groups; Artin groups (20F36) Geometric group theory (20F65) Topological methods in group theory (57M07)

Abstract: We prove that, aside from the obvious exceptions, the mapping class group of a compact orientable surface is not abstractly commensurable with any right-angled Artin group. Our argument applies to various subgroups of the mapping class group---the subgroups generated by powers of Dehn twists and the terms of the Johnson filtration---and additionally to the outer automorphism group of a free group and to certain linear groups.

Review text

The authors show that in all but finitely many exceptions, the mapping class group of a surface is not abstractly commensurable with a right-angled Artin group. The proof shows that abstract commensurators of nonabelian right-angled Artin groups contain arbitrarily large finite subgroups, whereas the abstract commensurator of a mapping class group is commensurable with the mapping class group itself. Mapping class groups are well known to have bounded size finite subgroups, which establishes the result. For the case of mapping class groups, the main result of the article follows from quasi-isometric rigidity of mapping class groups, though the argument given by the authors also applies to the Torelli group and terms in the Johnson filtration.

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