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

DOI10.4310/MRL.2014.V21.N3.A4MaRDI QIDQ477935zbMATH OpenFDO

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

Publication date 10 December 2014

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

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

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)

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.

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