Asymptotic mapping class groups of closed surfaces punctured along Cantor sets

zbMATH Open1475.57031arXiv1701.08132MaRDI QIDQ5154983FDOQ5154983

Javier Aramayona, Louis Funar

Publication date: 5 October 2021

Abstract: We introduce subgroups ${mathcalB}_g<{mathcalH}_g$ of the mapping class group $Mod(Sigm{a}_g)$ of a closed surface of genus $gge0$ with a Cantor set removed, which are extensions of Thompson's group $V$ by a direct limit of mapping class groups of compact surfaces of genus $g$. We first show that both ${mathcalB}_g$ and ${mathcalH}_g$ are finitely presented, and that ${mathcalH}_g$ is dense in $Mod(Sigm{a}_g)$. We then exploit the relation with Thompson's groups to study properties ${mathcalB}_g$ and ${mathcalH}_g$ in analogy with known facts about finite-type mapping class groups. For instance, their homology coincides with the stable homology of the mapping class group of genus $g$, every automorphism is geometric, and every homomorphism from a higher-rank lattice has finite image. In addition, the same connection with Thompson's groups will also prove that ${mathcalB}_g$ and ${mathcalH}_g$ are not linear and do not have Kazhdan's Property (T), which represents a departure from the current knowledge about finite-type mapping class groups.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1701.08132

zbMATH Keywords

infinite-type surfaceasymptotic mapping class groupsurface punctured along a Cantor set

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geometric group theory (20F65) General geometric structures on low-dimensional manifolds (57M50) 2-dimensional topology (including mapping class groups of surfaces, Teichmüller theory, curve complexes, etc.) (57K20)

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