On the dimension of CAT(0) spaces where mapping class groups act.

DOI10.1515/CRELLE.2011.172MaRDI QIDQ4899181zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Martin R. Bridson

Publication date 7 January 2013

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0908.0690

zbMATH Keywords

actionsCAT(0) spacesfixed pointsisometriesmapping class groups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geometric group theory (20F65) Teichmüller theory for Riemann surfaces (30F60) Global geometric and topological methods (à la Gromov); differential geometric analysis on metric spaces (53C23) Fixed points and coincidences in algebraic topology (55M20)

Abstract: Whenever the mapping class group of a closed orientable surface of genus g acts by semisimple isometries on a complete CAT(0) space of dimension less than g it fixes a point.

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• Accumulation points of the boundary of a CAT(0) space on which a group acts geometrically.
• Triviality of some representations of \(\operatorname{MCG}(S_g)\) in \(\mathrm{GL}(n,\mathbb C)\), \(\operatorname{Diff}(S^2)\) and \(\operatorname{Homeo}(\mathbb T^2)\)
• Asymptotic Dimension of Proper CAT(0) Spaces that are Homeomorphic to the Plane
• Two questions on mapping class groups
• Semisimple actions of mapping class groups on CAT(0) spaces
• Low-dimensional representations of matrix groups and group actions on \(\mathrm{CAT}(0)\) spaces and manifolds.
• Surface groups acting on $\text{CAT}(-1)$ spaces
• Low‐dimensional linear representations of mapping class groups
• Semi-simple actions of the Higman-Thompson groups \(T_n\) on finite-dimensional CAT(0) spaces
• Profinite isomorphisms and fixed-point properties
• Simple groups with strong fixed-point properties
• Helly-type theorems, \(\mathrm{CAT}(0)\) spaces and actions of automorphism groups of free groups
• Group actions and Helly's theorem

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