Three perfect mapping class groups

zbMATH Open1459.57022arXiv2012.05993MaRDI QIDQ1998998FDOQ1998998

Authors: Nicholas G. Vlamis 

Publication date: 10 March 2021

Published in: The New York Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We prove that the mapping class group of a surface obtained from removing a Cantor set from either the 2-sphere, the plane, or the interior of the closed 2-disk has no proper countable-index subgroups. The proof is an application of the automatic continuity of these groups, which was established by Mann. As corollaries, we see that these groups do not contain any proper finite-index subgroups and that each of these groups have trivial abelianization.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.05993

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zbMATH Keywords

mapping class groupautomatic continuityinfinite-type surfaceCantor tree surface

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Dynamical systems involving homeomorphisms and diffeomorphisms of planes and surfaces (37E30) Topological methods in group theory (57M07) Topological properties of groups of homeomorphisms or diffeomorphisms (57S05) Special aspects of infinite or finite groups (20F99) Noncompact transformation groups (22F99) 2-dimensional topology (including mapping class groups of surfaces, Teichmüller theory, curve complexes, etc.) (57K20)

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• Nielsen realization for infinite-type surfaces

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