A note on the abelianizations of finite-index subgroups of the mapping class group

DOI10.1090/S0002-9939-09-10124-7MaRDI QIDQ5189199zbMATH OpenWikidataFDO

Authors Andrew Putman

Publication date 8 March 2010

Published in Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0812.0017

zbMATH Keywords

Johnson kernelmapping class group

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Hyperbolic groups and nonpositively curved groups (20F67) Topological methods in group theory (57M07) General low-dimensional topology (57M99)

Abstract: For some $ggeq3$, let $Gamma$ be a finite index subgroup of the mapping class group of a genus $g$ surface (possibly with boundary components and punctures). An old conjecture of Ivanov says that the abelianization of $Gamma$ should be finite. In this note, we prove two theorems supporting this conjecture. For the first, let $T_x$ denote the Dehn twist about a simple closed curve $x$. For some $ngeq1$, we have $T_x^{n}inGamma$. We prove that $T_x^n$ is torsion in the abelianization of $Gamma$. Our second result shows that the abelianization of $Gamma$ is finite if $Gamma$ contains a "large chunk" (in a certain technical sense) of the Johnson kernel, that is, the subgroup of the mapping class group generated by twists about separating curves. This generalizes work of Hain and Boggi.

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