Isometric embeddings of surfaces for scl

DOI10.4171/GGD/845MaRDI QIDQ6921254zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Alexis Marchand

Publication date 6 October 2025

Published in Groups, Geometry, and Dynamics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.4171/GGD/845

zbMATH Keywords

isometric embeddingsrationalityrelative Gromov seminormstable commutator lengthsurfaces

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geometric group theory (20F65) Homological methods in group theory (20J05) Topological methods in group theory (57M07)

Review text

Let \(\varphi \colon F_1 \to F_2\) be an injective morphism of free groups. If \(\varphi\) is geometric, meaning that it is induced by the inclusion of an oriented compact connected surface with non-empty boundary, then it is an isometric embedding for stable commutator length. More generally, if \(T\) is a subsurface of an oriented compact (possibly closed) connected surface \(S\) and \(c\) is an integral \(1\)-chain on \(\pi_1 T\), the map \(H_2(T,c) \to H_2(S,c)\) induced by inclusion is an isometric embedding for the relative Gromov seminorm. These two statements are the main theorems of the paper and they cover the geometric free group case and the more general surface case without the \(H_1\)-injectivity assumption, respectively. The necessity of this homological hypothesis is illustrated by a transparent counterexample.

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