Symplectic structures on right-angled Artin groups: between the mapping class group and the symplectic group.

DOI10.2140/GT.2009.13.857zbMATH Open1181.20032arXiv0807.4801OpenAlexW2160016493MaRDI QIDQ1006142FDOQ1006142

Authors: Matthew Day 

Publication date: 19 March 2009

Published in: Geometry \& Topology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We define a family of groups that include the mapping class group of a genus g surface with one boundary component and the integral symplectic group Sp(2g,Z). We then prove that these groups are finitely generated. These groups, which we call mapping class groups over graphs, are indexed over labeled simplicial graphs with 2g vertices. The mapping class group over the graph Gamma is defined to be a subgroup of the automorphism group of the right-angled Artin group A_Gamma of Gamma. We also prove that the kernel of the map Aut A_Gamma to Aut H_1(A_Gamma) is finitely generated, generalizing a theorem of Magnus.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0807.4801

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zbMATH Keywords

finitely generated groupsmapping class groupssymplectic structuresright-angled Artin groupsfinite generationpeak reductions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Generators, relations, and presentations of groups (20F05) Automorphism groups of groups (20F28) Braid groups; Artin groups (20F36) Topological methods in group theory (57M07)

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