Mapping class groups, multiple Kodaira fibrations, and CAT(0) spaces

DOI10.1007/S00208-020-02125-YMaRDI QIDQ2035581zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Claudio Llosa Isenrich, Pierre Py

Publication date 25 June 2021

Published in Mathematische Annalen (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.03694

zbMATH Keywords

CAT(0)Kodaira fibrationsmapping class groups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Fundamental groups and their automorphisms (group-theoretic aspects) (20F34) Geometric group theory (20F65) Teichmüller theory for Riemann surfaces (30F60) Kähler manifolds (32Q15) Global Riemannian geometry, including pinching (53C20) Topological methods in group theory (57M07) Topology of vector bundles and fiber bundles (57R22)

Abstract: We study several geometric and group theoretical problems related to Kodaira fibrations, to more general families of Riemann surfaces, and to surface-by-surface groups. First we provide constraints on Kodaira fibrations that fiber in more than two distinct ways, addressing a question by Catanese and Salter about their existence. Then we show that if the fundamental group of a surface bundle over a surface is a $mCAT(0)$ group, the bundle must have injective monodromy (unless the monodromy has finite image). Finally, given a family of closed Riemann surfaces (of genus $ge2$) with injective monodromy $EoB$ over a manifold $B$, we explain how to build a new family of Riemann surfaces with injective monodromy whose base is a finite cover of the total space $E$ and whose fibers have higher genus. We apply our construction to prove that the mapping class group of a once punctured surface virtually admits injective and irreducible morphisms into the mapping class group of a closed surface of higher genus.

Review text

The article under review investigates the question whether Kodaira fibrations can fiber in more than two ways. Strong constraints on the existence of such fibrations are provided by the following theorem: ``Let \(X\) be a compact complex surface. Suppose that \(X\) admits three distinct Kodaira fibrations \(p_i:X \to \Sigma_i\), \(1 \leq i \leq 3\). Then the image of the induced morphism \[ \pi_1(X) \to \pi_1(\Sigma_1) \times \pi_1(\Sigma_2) \times \pi_1(\Sigma_3) \] is of finite index in \(\pi_1(\Sigma_1) \times \pi_1(\Sigma_2) \times \pi_1(\Sigma_3)\). A necessary condition for a surface-by-surface group to be CAT(\(0\)) is provided: ``Let \(G\) be a surface-by-surface group with infinite monodromy. We fix a normal subgroup \(R \lhd G\) isomorphic to a surface group with \(G/R\) isomorphic to a surface group. If the group \(G\) is CAT(\(0\)) then the monodromy \(G/R\to \mathrm{Out}(R)\) is injective.

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