Mapping class groups of covers with boundary and braid group embeddings

DOI10.2140/AGT.2020.20.239zbMATH Open1447.57025arXiv1804.10609OpenAlexW3099498986MaRDI QIDQ1985992FDOQ1985992

Tyrone Ghaswala, Alan McLeay

Publication date: 7 April 2020

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

Abstract: We consider finite-sheeted, regular, possibly branched covering spaces of compact surfaces with boundary and the associated liftable and symmetric mapping class groups. In particular, we classify when either of these subgroups coincides with the entire mapping class group of the surface. As a consequence, we construct infinite families of non-geometric embeddings of the braid group into mapping class groups in the sense of Wajnryb. Indeed, our embeddings map standard braid generators to products of Dehn twists about curves forming chains of arbitrary length. As key tools, we use the Birman-Hilden theorem and the action of the mapping class group on a particular fundamental groupoid of the surface.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.10609

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zbMATH Keywords

mapping class groupsbraid groupscovering spaces

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Braid groups; Artin groups (20F36) Groupoids (i.e. small categories in which all morphisms are isomorphisms) (20L05) Low-dimensional topology of special (e.g., branched) coverings (57M12) 2-dimensional topology (including mapping class groups of surfaces, Teichmüller theory, curve complexes, etc.) (57K20)

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