Zariski density and finite quotients of mapping class groups

DOI10.1093/IMRN/RNS097zbMATH Open1323.57020arXiv1106.4165OpenAlexW2963389908MaRDI QIDQ5250692FDOQ5250692

Authors: Louis Funar 

Publication date: 22 May 2015

Published in: IMRN. International Mathematics Research Notices (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Our main result is that the image of the quantum representation of a central extension of the mapping class group of the genus $ggeq3$ closed orientable surface at a prime $pgeq5$ is a Zariski dense discrete subgroup of some higher rank algebraic semi-simple Lie group $mathbb{G}_p$ defined over $Q$. As an application we find that, for any prime $pgeq5$ a central extension of the genus $g$ mapping class group surjects onto the finite groups $$, for all but finitely many primes $q$. This method provides infinitely many finite quotients of a given mapping class group outside the realm of symplectic groups.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1106.4165

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zbMATH Keywords

topological quantum field theorycentral extensions of mapping class groupsquantum representations of mapping class groups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Topological quantum field theories (aspects of differential topology) (57R56) General low-dimensional topology (57M99)

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