Positive factorizations of mapping classes

DOI10.2140/AGT.2017.17.1527zbMATH Open1439.57045arXiv1412.0352OpenAlexW2484041110WikidataQ114045635 ScholiaQ114045635MaRDI QIDQ2398828FDOQ2398828

Authors: Naoyuki Monden, R. İnanç Baykur, Jeremy Van Horn-Morris 

Publication date: 21 August 2017

Published in: Algebraic \& Geometric Topology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In this article, we study the maximal length of positive Dehn twist factorizations of surface mapping classes. In connection to fundamental questions regarding the uniform topology of symplectic 4-manifolds and Stein fillings of contact 3-manifolds coming from the topology of supporting Lefschetz pencils and open books, we completely determine which boundary multitwists admit arbitrarily long positive Dehn twist factorizations along nonseparating curves, and which mapping class groups contain elements admitting such factorizations. Moreover, for every pair of positive integers g,n, we tell whether or not there exist genus-g Lefschetz pencils with n base points, and if there are, what the maximal Euler characteristic is whenever it is bounded above. We observe that only symplectic 4-manifolds of general type can attain arbitrarily large topology regardless of the genus and the number of base points of Lefschetz pencils on them.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1412.0352

Recommendations

• Arbitrarily Long Factorizations in Mapping Class Groups
• Topological complexity of symplectic 4-manifolds and Stein fillings
• Mapping class group factorizations and symplectic 4-manifolds: some open problems
• Factorizations of diffeomorphisms of compact surfaces with boundary
• Broken Lefschetz fibrations and mapping class groups

zbMATH Keywords

mapping class groupscontact manifoldssymplectic manifoldsLefschetz fibrations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geometric group theory (20F65) Global theory of symplectic and contact manifolds (53D35) General geometric structures on low-dimensional manifolds (57M50) Symplectic and contact topology in high or arbitrary dimension (57R17)

Cites Work

• Right-veering diffeomorphisms of compact surfaces with boundary
• Lefschetz fibrations on compact Stein surfaces
• Topological complexity of symplectic 4-manifolds and Stein fillings
• Compact Stein surfaces with boundary as branched covers of \(B^4\)
• Planar open books, monodromy factorizations and symplectic fillings
• Strongly fillable contact manifolds and \(J\)-holomorphic foliations
• Lefschetz pencils on symplectic manifolds.
• On sections of hyperelliptic Lefschetz fibrations
• Canonical classes and the geography of nonminimal Lefschetz fibrations over \(S^2\)
• Geometric monodromy and the hyperbolic disc
• Sections of surface bundles and Lefschetz fibrations
• Multisections of Lefschetz fibrations and topology of symplectic 4-manifolds
• GEOMETRIC PRESENTATIONS FOR THE PURE BRAID GROUP
• Symplectic structure on ruled surfaces and a generalized adjunction formula
• An infinite presentation of the Torelli group
• On Legendrian surgeries between lens spaces
• Almost complex 4-manifolds with vanishing first Chern class
• Arbitrarily Long Factorizations in Mapping Class Groups
• On the geography of Stein fillings of certain 3-manifolds
• Sections of Lefschetz fibrations and Stein fillings
• Singular fibers in Lefschetz fibrations on manifolds with \(b_2^+=1\)
• Lefschetz pencils and divisors in moduli space

Cited In (14)

• Unexpected Stein fillings, rational surface singularities and plane curve arrangements
• Lefschetz fibrations
• Factorization of positive multilinear maps
• Positive factorizations of symmetric mapping classes
• Topological complexity of symplectic 4-manifolds and Stein fillings
• Low-slope Lefschetz fibrations
• On uniqueness of symplectic fillings of links of some surface singularities
• Factorizations of diffeomorphisms of compact surfaces with boundary
• Positive factorizations of pseudoperiodic homeomorphisms
• Common factors and torsion in positive characteristic
• Positively factorizable maps
• On extremal positive maps acting between type I factors
• Title not available (Why is that?)
• Products of pairs of Dehn twists and maximal real Lefschetz fibrations

This page was built for publication: Positive factorizations of mapping classes

Report a bug (only for logged in users!)Click here to report a bug for this page (MaRDI item Q2398828)