An infinite presentation of the Torelli group

DOI10.1007/S00039-009-0006-6zbMATH Open1178.57001arXivmath/0703529OpenAlexW2949147769MaRDI QIDQ1034682FDOQ1034682

Authors: Andrew Putman 

Publication date: 6 November 2009

Published in: Geometric and Functional Analysis. GAFA (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In this paper, we construct an infinite presentation of the Torelli subgroup of the mapping class group of a surface whose generators consist of the set of all "separating twists", all "bounding pair maps", and all "commutators of simply intersecting pairs" and whose relations all come from a short list of topological configurations of these generators on the surface. Aside from a few obvious ones, all of these relations come from a set of embeddings of groups derived from surface groups into the Torelli group. In the process of analyzing these embeddings, we derive a novel presentation for the fundamental group of a closed surface whose generating set is the set of all simple closed curves.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0703529

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zbMATH Keywords

presentationmapping class groupTorelli group of a surface

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Generators, relations, and presentations of groups (20F05) Topological methods in group theory (57M07) Fundamental groups and their automorphisms (group-theoretic aspects) (20F34)

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