From pure braid groups to hyperbolic groups

DOI10.4171/LEM/1068MaRDI QIDQ7007700zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Lei Chen

Publication date 25 March 2025

Published in L'Enseignement Mathématique. 2e Série (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.4171/LEM/1068

zbMATH Keywords

Betti numberEuler classhomomorphism rigidityhyperbolic groupmapping class group, Dehn twistpure braid group

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Braid groups; Artin groups (20F36) Hyperbolic groups and nonpositively curved groups (20F67)

Review text

This paper proves rigidity results for homomorphisms from pure braid groups on surfaces into torsion-free hyperbolic groups. The author generalizes his earlier work [Isr. J. Math. 232, No. 1, 483--500 (2019; Zbl 1458.20033)] on homomorphisms from pure braid groups to free and surface groups, showing that for a closed orientable surface \(S_g\) of genus \(g > 1\), and for any finite index normal subgroup \(\Gamma\) of \(PB_n(S_g)\) with abelian quotient, every homomorphism \(\varphi: \Gamma \to \mathcal{H}\) into a torsion-free non-elementary hyperbolic group \(\mathcal{H}\) either factors through a coordinate projection or has cyclic image (Theorem 1.1).\N\NThe approach is extended to the full group \(PB_n(S_g^p)\) when the surface has punctures (Theorem 1.3), and to the classical pure braid group \(PB_n\) on the disk (Theorem 1.4), where a full classification of such homomorphisms is given: the image is either cyclic or factors (up to conjugation) through one of two canonical forgetful maps \(PB_n \to PB_3\) or \(PB_n \to PB_4\) followed by a known exceptional homomorphism onto \(F_2\).\N\NThe paper also computes the first Betti number of finite index subgroups of \(PB_n(S_g)\) (Theorem 1.2), showing it decomposes via the coordinate projections.

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