Ubiquity of geometric finiteness in mapping class groups of Haken 3-manifolds

DOI10.2140/PJM.1999.188.275zbMATH Open0926.57015arXivmath/9712250OpenAlexW2593373109MaRDI QIDQ1127908FDOQ1127908

Authors: Sungbok Hong, Darryl McCullough 

Publication date: 10 August 1998

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

Abstract: Mapping class groups of Haken 3-manifolds enjoy many of the homological finiteness properties of mapping class groups of 2-manifolds of finite type. For example, H(M) has a torsionfree subgroup of finite index, which is geometrically finite (i. e. is the fundamental group of a finite aspherical complex). This was proven by J. Harer for 2-manifolds and by the second author for Haken 3-manifolds. In this paper we prove that H(M) acts properly discontinuously on a contractible simplicial complex, with compact quotient. This implies that every torsionfree subgroup of finite index in H(M) is geometrically finite. Also, a simplified proof of the fact that torsionfree subgroups of finite index in H(M) exist is given. All results are proven for mapping class groups that preserve a boundary pattern in the sense of K. Johannson. As an application, we show that if F is a nonempty compact 2-manifold in the boundary of M, then the classifying space BDiff(M rel F) of the diffeomorphism group of M relative to F has the homotopy type of a finite aspherical complex.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/9712250

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zbMATH Keywords

3-manifoldmapping class grouptorsion freeHakengeometrically finiteboundary patternKontsevichvirtual

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Topological properties of groups of homeomorphisms or diffeomorphisms (57S05) Differential topological aspects of diffeomorphisms (57R50)

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