Certifying incompressibility of noninjective surfaces with scl.

DOI10.2140/PJM.2013.262.257zbMATH Open1276.20048arXiv1112.1791OpenAlexW2087271396MaRDI QIDQ354580FDOQ354580

Danny Calegari

Publication date: 19 July 2013

Published in: Pacific Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Cooper-Manning and Louder gave examples of maps of surface groups to PSL(2,C) which are not injective, but are incompressible (i.e. no simple loop is in the kernel). We construct more examples with very simple certificates for their incompressibility arising from the theory of stable commutator length.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1112.1791

zbMATH Keywords

incompressibilitysimple loop conjecture\(\mathrm{PSL}(2,\mathbb C)\)closed surface groupsstable commutator lengths

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geometric group theory (20F65) Fuchsian groups and their generalizations (group-theoretic aspects) (20H10) Topological methods in group theory (57M07) Group actions on manifolds and cell complexes in low dimensions (57M60) Commutator calculus (20F12) Other groups related to topology or analysis (20F38)

Cited In (5)

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• A Survey of the Thurston Norm
• The simple loop conjecture for 3-manifolds modeled on Sol
• Non-faithful representations of surface groups into \(\mathrm{SL}(2,\mathbb C)\) which kill no simple closed curve
• Incompressible solvable representations of surface groups

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• scallop
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