Commensurability of geometric subgroups of mapping class groups

DOI10.1007/S10711-009-9377-YMaRDI QIDQ845791zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Michał Stukow

Publication date 29 January 2010

Published in Geometriae Dedicata (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0707.3430

zbMATH Keywords

mapping class groupunitary representationcomplex of curvesvirtually abeliancommensurablegeometric subgroup

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Unitary representations of locally compact groups (22D10) Induced representations for locally compact groups (22D30) Other groups related to topology or analysis (20F38) General low-dimensional topology (57M99)

Abstract: Let M be a surface (possibly nonorientable) with punctures and/or boundary components. The paper is a study of ``geometric subgroups of the mapping class group of M, that is subgroups corresponding to inclusions of subsurfaces (possibly disconnected). We characterise the subsurfaces which lead to virtually abelian geometric subgroups. We provide algebraic and geometric conditions under which two geometric subgroups are commensurable. We also describe the commensurator of a geometric subgroup in terms of the stabiliser of the underlying subsurface. Finally, we show some applications of our analysis to the theory of irreducible unitary representations of mapping class groups.

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