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

centralizersmapping class groupsnormalizerscohomology of groupsbraid groupsFarrell cohomology

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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.

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