Distortion and Tits alternative in smooth mapping class groups

DOI10.1090/TRAN/7476MaRDI QIDQ5380506zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Sebastian Hurtado, Emmanuel Militon

Publication date 5 June 2019

Published in Transactions of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1506.02877

zbMATH Keywords

Cantor setsdistortionmapping class groupssmooth mapping class groupsThompson's groupTits alternative

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Dynamics induced by group actions other than (mathbb{Z}) and (mathbb{R}), and (mathbb{C}) (37C85) 2-dimensional topology (including mapping class groups of surfaces, Teichmüller theory, curve complexes, etc.) (57K20) Groups acting on specific manifolds (57S25)

Abstract: In this article, we study the smooth mapping class group of a surface S relative to a given Cantor set, that is the group of isotopy classes of orientation-preserving smooth diffeomorphisms of S which preserve this Cantor set. When the Cantor set is the standard ternary Cantor set, we prove that the subgroup consisting of diffeomorphisms which are isotopic to the identity on S does not contain any distorted elements. Moreover, we prove a weak Tits alternative for these groups.

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