Normal all pseudo-Anosov subgroups of mapping class groups

DOI10.2140/GT.2000.4.293zbMATH Open0962.57007arXivmath/9906133OpenAlexW1970868219MaRDI QIDQ1586949FDOQ1586949

Authors: Kim Whittlesey 

Publication date: 30 November 2000

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

Abstract: We construct the first known examples of nontrivial, normal, all pseudo-Anosov subgroups of mapping class groups of surfaces. Specifically, we construct such subgroups for the closed genus two surface and for the sphere with five or more punctures. Using the branched covering of the genus two surface over the sphere and results of Birman and Hilden, we prove that a reducible mapping class of the genus two surface projects to a reducible mapping class on the sphere with six punctures. The construction introduces "Brunnian" mapping classes of the sphere, which are analogous to Brunnian links.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/9906133

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Braid groups; Artin groups (20F36) Group actions on manifolds and cell complexes in low dimensions (57M60)

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