Factoring periodic maps into Dehn twists

DOI10.1016/J.JPAA.2022.107159MaRDI QIDQ2161122zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Neeraj K. Dhanwani, Ajay K. Nair, Kashyap Rajeevsarathy

Publication date 4 August 2022

Published in Journal of Pure and Applied Algebra (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.11161

zbMATH Keywords

Dehn twistsmapping classperiodic mapssurface

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

2-dimensional topology (including mapping class groups of surfaces, Teichmüller theory, curve complexes, etc.) (57K20) General geometric structures on low-dimensional manifolds (57M50) Group actions on manifolds and cell complexes in low dimensions (57M60) General low-dimensional topology (57M99)

Review text

Dehn and Lickorish proved that the mapping class groups of oriented closed surfaces are generated by Dehn twists. On the other hand, Nielsen showed that conjugacy classes of periodic maps on oriented closed surfaces are described by certain data sets on the orbit spaces of periodic maps. In this paper, an algorithm to find Dehn twist presentations for the periodic maps from the above data sets is introduced. This algorithm is based on the work by \textit{S. Parsad} et al. [J. Topol. Anal. 11, No. 4, 929--964 (2019; Zbl 1432.57047)], chain relations, generalized star relations, and the Bestvina-Handel algorithm [\textit{M. Bestvina} and \textit{M. Handel}, Topology 34, No. 1, 109--140 (1995; Zbl 0837.57010)]. As an application, some results on roots of Dehn twists and pseudo-Anosov homeomorphisms are obtained.

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