On stable commutator length in hyperelliptic mapping class groups

DOI10.2140/PJM.2014.272.323MaRDI QIDQ2256292zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Danny Calegari, Naoyuki Monden, Masatoshi Sato

Publication date 19 February 2015

Published in Pacific Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1212.6117

zbMATH Keywords

Dehn twisthyperelliptic mapping class group of a surfacestable commutator length

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General low-dimensional topology (57M99)

Abstract: We give a new upper bound on the stable commutator length of Dehn twists in hyperelliptic mapping class groups, and determine the stable commutator length of some elements. We also calculate values and the defects of homogeneous quasimorphisms derived from omega-signatures, and show that they are linearly independent in the mapping class groups of pointed 2-spheres when the number of points is small.

Review text

The commutator length \(\text{cl}_G(x)\) of an element \(x\) in a group \(G\) is the smallest number of commutators in \(G\) whose product is \(x\), and the stable commutator length of \(x\) is the limit of \(\text{cl}_G(x^n)/n\) when \(n\) goes to infinity. In the present paper, new upper bounds are obtained on the stable commutator length of Dehn twists in a hyperelliptic mapping class group of a closed surface (the normalizer of a hyperelliptic involution in the mapping class group of a surface), or equivalently in the mapping class group of the 2-sphere with \(m\) distinguished points; also, the stable commutator length of some elements is determined. Stable commutator length on a group is closely related to functions on the group called homogeneous quasimorphisms through Bavard's duality theorem see \textit{C. Bavard} [Enseign. Math. (2) 37, No. 1--2, 109--150 (1991; Zbl 0810.20026)]. ``We also calculate values and the defects of homogeneous quasimorphisms derived from \(\omega\)-signatures and show that they are linearly independent in mapping class groups of pointed 2-spheres when the number of points is small. Concerning related work there is a recent paper of \textit{R. İ. Baykur} et al. [Trans. Am. Math. Soc. 365, No. 11, 5999--6016 (2013; Zbl 1334.57028)] who determine the commutator length of a Dehn twist about the boundary curve of a compact surface with connected boundary, and lower bounds on the stable commutator length of Dehn twists of a closed surface are obtained using gauge theory in a paper by \textit{H. Endo} and \textit{D. Kotschick} [Invent. Math. 144, No. 1, 169--175 (2001; Zbl 0987.57004)].

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