Trees and mapping class groups

DOI10.1515/CRELLE.2009.087zbMATH Open1190.57014arXivmath/0611241OpenAlexW2030800734MaRDI QIDQ3404367FDOQ3404367

Christopher J. Leininger, Richard Peabody IV Kent, Saul Schleimer

Publication date: 9 February 2010

Published in: Journal für die reine und angewandte Mathematik (Crelles Journal) (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: There is a forgetful map from the mapping class group of a punctured surface to that of the surface with one fewer puncture. We prove that finitely generated purely pseudo-Anosov subgroups of the kernel of this map are convex cocompact in the sense of B. Farb and L. Mosher. In particular, we obtain an affirmative answer to their question of local convex cocompactness of K. Whittlesey's group. In the course of the proof, we obtain a new proof of a theorem of I. Kra. We also relate the action of this kernel on the curve complex to a family of actions on trees. This quickly yields a new proof of a theorem of J. Harer.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0611241

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zbMATH Keywords

curve complexmapping class grouppseudo-Anosovconvex cocompact

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geometric group theory (20F65) Topological methods in group theory (57M07) General low-dimensional topology (57M99)

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• The high-dimensional cohomology of the moduli space of curves with level structures
• The end of the curve complex
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