The geometry of the handlebody groups I: Distortion

DOI10.1142/S1793525312500070MaRDI QIDQ2885381zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Ursula Hamenstädt, Sebastian Hensel

Publication date 23 May 2012

Published in Journal of Topology and Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1101.1838

zbMATH Keywords

mapping class groupshandlebody groupssubgroup distortion

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Automorphisms of infinite groups (20E36) Geometric group theory (20F65) Fundamental groups and their automorphisms (group-theoretic aspects) (20F34) General low-dimensional topology (57M99)

Abstract: We show that the mapping class group of a handlebody of genus at least 2 (with any number of marked points or spots) is exponentially distorted in the mapping class group of its boundary surface. The same holds true for solid tori with at least two marked points or spots.

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