Three perfect mapping class groups

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Authors Nicholas G. Vlamis

Publication date 10 March 2021

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.05993, http://nyjm.albany.edu/j/2021/27-18.html

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zbMATH Keywords

automatic continuityCantor tree surfaceinfinite-type surfacemapping class group

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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.

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