The center of some braid groups and the Farrell cohomology of certain pure mapping class groups.

DOI10.2140/AGT.2007.7.1987MaRDI QIDQ2466705zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Yu Qing Chen, Craig A. Jensen, Henry H. Glover

Publication date 16 January 2008

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0712.3334

zbMATH Keywords

braid groupscentralizerscohomology of groupsFarrell cohomologymapping class groupsnormalizers

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Subgroup theorems; subgroup growth (20E07) Braid groups; Artin groups (20F36) Cohomology of groups (20J06) Topological methods in group theory (57M07) General geometric structures on low-dimensional manifolds (57M50)

Abstract: In this paper we first show that many braid groups of low genus surfaces have their centers as direct factors. We then give a description of centralizers and normalizers of prime order elements in pure mapping class groups of surfaces with spherical quotients using automorphism groups of fundamental groups of the quotient surfaces. As an application, we use these to show that the $p$-primary part of the Farrell cohomology groups of certain mapping class groups are elementary abelian groups. At the end we compute the $p$-primary part of the Farrell cohomology of a few pure mapping class groups.

Review text

The authors prove that the braid groups of \(S_1^0\), \(S_0^0\), and \(S_0^1\) (where \(S_g^n\) is the orientable surface of genus \(g\) with \(n\) punctures) are the direct product of their centers with other braid groups or mapping class groups. Then they compute centralizers and normalizers of elements of prime order in pure mapping class groups, provided that the quotient surfaces are punctured 2-spheres. Finally the \(p\)-primary part of the Farrell cohomology of pure mapping class groups is studied and explicitly described in some cases.

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• Braid groups and discrete diffeomorphisms of the punctured disk
• Braid groups and the co-Hopfian property.
• Topological complexity of subgroups of Artin's braid groups
• Free and properly discontinuous actions of discrete groups on homotopy circles

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