Mapping class groups are linear

DOI10.1515/9783110413557-012MaRDI QIDQ5224634zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Igor V. Nikolaev

Publication date 24 July 2019

Published in Topological Algebras and their Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0312449

zbMATH Keywords

AF-algebrasmapping class groups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Riemann surfaces; Weierstrass points; gap sequences (14H55) Teichmüller theory for Riemann surfaces (30F60) Noncommutative topology (46L85)

Abstract: It is shown, that the mapping class group of a surface of the genus g > 1 admits a faithful representation into the matrix group GL (6g-6, Z). The proof is based on a categorical correspondence between the Riemann surfaces and the so-called toric AF-algebras.

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