Irreducible Sp-representations and subgroup distortion in the mapping class group

DOI10.4171/CMH/233zbMATH Open1295.57021arXiv0707.2262MaRDI QIDQ550548FDOQ550548

Benson Farb, Andrew Putman, Nathan Broaddus

Publication date: 12 July 2011

Published in: Commentarii Mathematici Helvetici (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We prove that various subgroups of the mapping class group $Mod(Sigma)$ of a surface $Sigma$ are at least exponentially distorted. Examples include the Torelli group (answering a question of Hamenstadt), the "point-pushing" and surface braid subgroups, and the Lagrangian subgroup. Our techniques include a method to compute lower bounds on distortion via representation theory and an extension of Johnson theory to arbitrary subgroups of $H_1(Sigma;mathbbZ)$.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0707.2262

zbMATH Keywords

mapping class groupJohnson homomorphismTorelli groupsubgroup distortionsymplectic representation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geometric group theory (20F65) Asymptotic properties of groups (20F69) General low-dimensional topology (57M99)

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