Low-dimensional linear representations of the mapping class group of a nonorientable surface

DOI10.2140/AGT.2014.14.565MaRDI QIDQ740547zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Błazej Szepietowski

Publication date 3 September 2014

Published in Algebraic \& Geometric Topology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1303.1917

zbMATH Keywords

linear representationmapping class groupnonorientable surface

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Other groups related to topology or analysis (20F38) General low-dimensional topology (57M99)

Abstract: Suppose that $f$ is a homomorphism from the mapping class group $mathcalM(N_{g,n})$ of a nonorientable surface of genus $g$ with $n$ boundary components, to $mathrmGL(m,mathbbC)$. We prove that if $gge5$, $nle1$ and $mleg-2$, then $f$ factors through the abelianization of $mathcalM(N_{g,n})$, which is $mathbb{Z}_{2}imesmathbb{Z}_2$ for $gin5,6$ and $mathbb{Z}_2$ for $gge7$. If $gge7$, $n=0$ and $m=g-1$, then either $f$ has finite image (of order at most two if $ge8$), or it is conjugate to one of four "homological representations". As an application we prove that for $gge5$ and $h<g$, every homomorphism $mathcalM(N_{g,0})omathcalM(N_{h,0})$ factors through the abelianization of $mathcalM(N_{g,0})$.

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The author deals with homomorphisms of mapping class groups of non-orientable compact surfaces \(N_{g,n}\) of genus \(g\) with \(n\) boundary components into other mapping class groups and \(\mathrm{GL}(m,\mathbb{C})\). He shows that under certain restrictions on the parameters involved, including an upper bound on \(m\), the image of a homomorphism from \(\mathrm{MCG}(N_{g,n})\) into \(\mathrm{GL}(m,\mathbb{C})\) is abelian, and thus either trivial, \(\mathbb{Z}_2\) or \(\mathbb{Z}_2^2\). The same is true for the image of a homomorphism \(\mathrm{MCG}(N_{g,0})\to \mathrm{MCG}(N_{h,0})\) with \(g>h\). Moreover, for \(g\geq 7\) the classification of representations of \(\mathrm{MCG}(N_{g,0})\) in \(\mathrm{GL}(g-1,\mathbb{C})\) is given.

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