Injections of Artin groups.

DOI10.4171/CMH/108MaRDI QIDQ2468433zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Robert W. Bell, Dan Margalit

Publication date 23 January 2008

Published in Commentarii Mathematici Helvetici (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0501051

zbMATH Keywords

Artin groupsco-Hopfian groupscurve complexesinjective endomorphismsmapping class groups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Automorphisms of infinite groups (20E36) Braid groups; Artin groups (20F36) Topological methods in group theory (57M07)

Abstract: We study those Artin groups which, modulo their centers, are finite index subgroups of the mapping class group of a sphere with at least 5 punctures. In particular, we show that any injective homomorphism between these groups is parameterized by a homeomorphism of a punctured sphere together with a map to the integers. We also give a generating set for the automorphism group of the pure braid group on at least 4 strands. The technique, following Ivanov, is to prove that every superinjective map of the complex of curves of a sphere with at least 5 punctures is induced by a homeomorphism.

Review text

This paper concerns finite-index-subgroups of the extended mapping class group of a sphere with at least 5 punctures. The main theorem shows that if \(\rho\) is an injection from such a subgroup into the mapping class group, then it is conjugation by a unique element of the subgroup. Several consequences of this theorem are given, in particular the observation that all such subgroups are co-Hopfian (i.e. their injective endomorphisms are all isomorphisms). The theorem is proved using techniques of \textit{N. V. Ivanov} [Topology and geometry, Rohlin Semin. 1984-1986, Lect. Notes Math. 1346, 199-270 (1988; Zbl 0657.57004)], translating problems into questions about the curve complex.

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