Hierarchically cocompact classifying spaces for mapping class groups of surfaces

DOI10.1112/BLMS.12166zbMATH Open1436.20080arXiv1712.00496OpenAlexW2772340455MaRDI QIDQ4583627FDOQ4583627

Brita E. A. Nucinkis, Nansen Petrosyan

Publication date: 31 August 2018

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

Abstract: We define the notion of a hierarchically cocompact classifying space for a family of subgroups of a group. Our main application is to show that the mapping class group $mboxMod(S)$ of any connected oriented compact surface $S$, possibly with punctures and boundary components and with negative Euler characteristic has a hierarchically cocompact model for the family of virtually cyclic subgroups of dimension at most $mboxvcdmboxMod(S)+1$. When the surface is closed, we prove that this bound is optimal. In particular, this answers a question of L"{u}ck for mapping class groups of surfaces.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1712.00496

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geometric group theory (20F65) Classifying spaces of groups and (H)-spaces in algebraic topology (55R35) Topological methods in group theory (57M07) Cohomology of groups (20J06)

Cited In (3)

• Bredon homology of Artin groups of dihedral type
• Commensurators of abelian subgroups and the virtually abelian dimension of mapping class groups
• On the virtually cyclic dimension of normally poly-free groups

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