Finite index subgroups of mapping class groups

DOI10.1112/PLMS/PDT022MaRDI QIDQ5411920zbMATHOpenAlexFDO

Authors A. J. Berrick, Volker Gebhardt, Luis Paris

Publication date 25 April 2014

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1105.2468

zbMATH Keywords

mapping class grouppermutation representationsymmetric groupfinite index subgroupsrepresentation of groups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Maximal subgroups (20E28) Other groups related to topology or analysis (20F38) General low-dimensional topology (57M99)

Abstract: Let $ggeq3$ and $ngeq0$, and let ${mathcalM}_{g,n}$ be the mapping class group of a surface of genus $g$ with $n$ boundary components. We prove that ${mathcalM}_{g,n}$ contains a unique subgroup of index $2^{g-1}(2^g-1)$ up to conjugation, a unique subgroup of index $2^{g-1}(2^g+1)$ up to conjugation, and the other proper subgroups of ${mathcalM}_{g,n}$ are of index greater than $2^{g-1}(2^g+1)$. In particular, the minimum index for a proper subgroup of ${mathcalM}_{g,n}$ is $2^{g-1}(2^g-1)$.

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