Roots of Dehn twists about separating curves

DOI10.1017/S1446788713000190zbMATH Open1284.57018arXiv1104.0968MaRDI QIDQ2873595FDOQ2873595

Authors: Kashyap Rajeevsarathy 

Publication date: 24 January 2014

Published in: Journal of the Australian Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Let $C$ be a curve in a closed orientable surface $F$ of genus $ggeq2$ that separates $F$ into subsurfaces $widetilde{F}_i$ of genera $g_i$, for $i=1,2$. We study the set of roots in $Mod(F)$ of the Dehn twist $t_C$ about $C$. All roots arise from pairs of $C_{n_i}$-actions on the $widetilde{F}_i$, where $n=lcm(n_1,n_2)$ is the degree of the root, that satisfy a certain compatibility condition. The $C_{n_i}$ actions are of a kind that we call nestled actions, and we classify them using tuples that we call data sets. The compatibility condition can be expressed by a simple formula, allowing a classification of all roots of $t_C$ by compatible pairs of data sets. We use these data set pairs to classify all roots for $g=2$ and $g=3$. We show that there is always a root of degree at least $2g^2+2g$, while $nleq4g^2+2g$. We also give some additional applications.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1104.0968

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zbMATH Keywords

mapping class groupDehn twistroot

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Group actions on manifolds and cell complexes in low dimensions (57M60)

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