Abstract commensurators of right-angled Artin groups and mapping class groups.

DOI10.4310/MRL.2014.V21.N3.A4zbMATH Open1314.20032arXiv1307.8387MaRDI QIDQ477935FDOQ477935

Authors: Matt T. Clay, Christopher J. Leininger, Dan Margalit 

Publication date: 10 December 2014

Published in: Mathematical Research Letters (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We prove that, aside from the obvious exceptions, the mapping class group of a compact orientable surface is not abstractly commensurable with any right-angled Artin group. Our argument applies to various subgroups of the mapping class group---the subgroups generated by powers of Dehn twists and the terms of the Johnson filtration---and additionally to the outer automorphism group of a free group and to certain linear groups.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1307.8387

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zbMATH Keywords

mapping class groupsfinite subgroupsright-angled Artin groupsabstract commensuratorsquasi-isometric rigidity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Braid groups; Artin groups (20F36) Geometric group theory (20F65) Topological methods in group theory (57M07) Subgroup theorems; subgroup growth (20E07)

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