Normal generators for mapping class groups are abundant (Q2135390)
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Normal generators for mapping class groups are abundant (English)
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6 May 2022
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Summary: We provide a simple criterion for an element of the mapping class group of a closed surface to be a normal generator for the mapping class group. We apply this to show that every nontrivial periodic mapping class that is not a hyperelliptic involution is a normal generator for the mapping class group when the genus is at least 3. We also give many examples of pseudo-Anosov normal generators, answering a question of D. D. Long. In fact we show that every pseudo-Anosov mapping class with stretch factor less than \(\sqrt{2}\) is a normal generator. Even more, we give pseudo-Anosov normal generators with arbitrarily large stretch factors and arbitrarily large translation lengths on the curve graph, disproving a conjecture of Ivanov.
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mapping class groups
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normal closures
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pseudo-Anosov
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