Homomorphisms between pure mapping class groups

DOI10.1016/J.AIM.2025.110509MaRDI QIDQ6899283zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Rodrigo de Pool

Publication date 17 November 2025

Published in Advances in Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/J.AIM.2025.110509

zbMATH Keywords

mapping class groupsmoduli spaceRiemann surfaces

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

2-dimensional topology (including mapping class groups of surfaces, Teichmüller theory, curve complexes, etc.) (57K20) Topological properties of groups of homeomorphisms or diffeomorphisms (57S05)

Review text

This article studies homomorphisms between pure mapping class groups\N\[\N\mathrm{PMcg}(S) \to \mathrm{PMcg}(S')\N\]\Nof orientable finite-type surfaces.\N\NThe main results constrain such homomorphisms if the genus of \(S'\) is bounded by an exponential function of the genus of \(S\): they are induced by maps between the diffeomorphism groups (Theorem 1.1), and are given by concrete topological constructions (Theorem 1.2) called multi-embeddings. In fact, for closed surfaces any such homomorphism is trivial (Corollary 1.3). These results extend previous results [\textit{N. V. Ivanov}, Int. Math. Res. Not. 1997, No. 14, 651--666 (1997; Zbl 0890.57018); \textit{N. V. Ivanov}, Lect. Notes Math. 1346, 199--270 (1988; Zbl 0657.57004); \textit{L. Chen} and \textit{J. Lanier}, Geom. Dedicata 218, No. 5, Paper No. 100, 17 p. (2024; Zbl 07926260); \textit{J. Aramayona} and \textit{J. Souto}, Geom. Topol. 16, No. 4, 2285--2341 (2012; Zbl 1262.57003)] with better genus bounds.\N\NThe strategy of the proofs is to first prove that Dehn twists map to multitwists (under the genus bound). Once this is known, a careful study of braid relations between multitwists is used to show that multitwist-preserving homomorphisms are induced by multi-embeddings.

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