The Farrell-Jones conjecture for mapping class groups

DOI10.1007/S00222-018-0834-9MaRDI QIDQ1725699zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Mladen Bestvina, Arthur Bartels

Publication date 14 February 2019

Published in Inventiones Mathematicae (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1606.02844

zbMATH Keywords

\(K\)- and \(L\)-theory of group ringsFarrell-Jones conjecturemapping class groups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Algebraic (K)-theory and (L)-theory (category-theoretic aspects) (18F25) Geometric group theory (20F65) Moduli of Riemann surfaces, Teichmüller theory (complex-analytic aspects in several variables) (32G15)

Abstract: We prove the Farrell-Jones Conjecture for mapping class groups. The proof uses the Masur-Minsky theory of the large scale geometry of mapping class groups and the geometry of the thick part of Teichmueller space. The proof is presented in an axiomatic setup, extending the projection axioms of Bestvina-Bromberg-Fujiwara. More specifically, we prove that the action of the mapping class group on the Thurston compactification of Teichmueller space is finitely F-amenable for the family F consisting of virtual point stabilizers.

Review text

The Farrell-Jones conjecture for a group \(G\) says that the \(K\)- and \(L\)- theoretic assembly map, with respect to the family of virtually cyclic subgroups, is an isomorphism for every ring (with involution). It implies the Borel and the Novikov conjecture. For more details see [\textit{W. Lück} and \textit{H. Reich}, in: Handbook of K-theory. Vol. 1 and 2. Berlin: Springer. 703--842 (2005; Zbl 1120.19001)]. As the title suggests, the authors prove the Farrell-Jones conjecture for mapping class groups. More precisely, they show that the action of the mapping class group on the Thurston compactification of Teichmüller space is finitely \(\mathcal{F}\)-amenable. Here, the family \(\mathcal{F}\) consists of virtual point stabilizers. The axiomatic condition of \(\mathcal{F}\)-amenability was introduced by \textit{A. Bartels} [Compos. Math. 153, No. 4, 745--779 (2017; Zbl 1366.18012)] building on the definition of wide covers from [\textit{A. Bartels} et al., Invent. Math. 172, No. 1, 29--70 (2008; Zbl 1143.19003)]. Knowing that the action on the Thurston compactification is finitely \(\mathcal{F}\)-amenable, the Farrell-Jones conjecture is derived by an induction on the complexity of the surface. A similar induction has been used for \(\mathrm{GL}_n(\mathbb{Z})\) [\textit{A. Bartels} et al., Publ. Math., Inst. Hautes Étud. Sci. 119, 97--125 (2014; Zbl 1300.19001)]. The proof uses the idea of coarse flow spaces from [\textit{A. Bartels}, Compos. Math. 153, No. 4, 745--779 (2017; Zbl 1366.18012)] together with the Masur-Minsky notion of subsurface projection and the projection axioms from [\textit{M. Bestvina} et al., Publ. Math., Inst. Hautes Étud. Sci. 122, 1--64 (2015; Zbl 1372.20029)].

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