On mapping class group quotients by powers of Dehn twists and their representations

DOI10.4171/IRMA/33-1/15MaRDI QIDQ2055085zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Louis Funar

Publication date 3 December 2021

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.05961

zbMATH Keywords

Dehn twistsFibonacci TQFT representationfinite dimensional representationsJones representationmapping class group quotientssurvey

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to group theory (20-02) Braid groups; Artin groups (20F36) Other groups related to topology or analysis (20F38) Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to manifolds and cell complexes (57-02) 2-dimensional topology (including mapping class groups of surfaces, Teichmüller theory, curve complexes, etc.) (57K20) Topological methods in group theory (57M07)

Abstract: The aim of this paper is to survey some known results about mapping class group quotients by powers of Dehn twists, related to their finite dimensional representations and to state some open questions. One can construct finite quotients of them, out of representations with Zariski dense images into semisimple Lie groups. We show that, in genus 2, the Fibonacci TQFT representation is actually a specialization of the Jones representation. Eventually, we explain a method of Long and Moody which provides large families of mapping class group representations.

Review text

Summary: The aim of this chapter is to survey some known results about mapping class group quotients by powers of Dehn twists, related to their finite dimensional representations and to state some open questions. One can construct finite quotients of them, out of representations with Zariski dense images into semisimple Lie groups. We show that, in genus \(2\), the Fibonacci TQFT representation is actually a specialization of the Jones representation. Eventually, we explain a method of Long and Moody [\textit{D. D. Long}, Commun. Anal. Geom. 2, No. 2, 217--238 (1994; Zbl 0845.20028)] which provides large families of mapping class group representations. For the entire collection see [Zbl 1466.57001].

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