The girth alternative for mapping class groups.

DOI10.4171/GGD/223zbMATH Open1323.20034arXiv1105.5422MaRDI QIDQ2016101FDOQ2016101

Kei Nakamura

Publication date: 19 June 2014

Published in: Groups, Geometry, and Dynamics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The girth of a finitely generated group G is the supremum of the girth of Cayley graphs for G over all finite generating sets. Let G be a finitely generated subgroup of the mapping class group Mod(S), where S is a compact orientable surface. Then, either G is virtually abelian or it has infinite girth; moreover, if we assume that G is not infinite cyclic, these alternatives are mutually exclusive.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1105.5422

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zbMATH Keywords

finitely generated groupsmapping class groupsgirth of Cayley graphsvirtually free-Abelian groups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Graphs and abstract algebra (groups, rings, fields, etc.) (05C25) Residual properties and generalizations; residually finite groups (20E26) Generators, relations, and presentations of groups (20F05) Geometric group theory (20F65) Topological methods in group theory (57M07) Group actions on manifolds and cell complexes in low dimensions (57M60) Subgroup theorems; subgroup growth (20E07)

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