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

DOI10.4171/CMH/233MaRDI QIDQ550548zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Nathan Broaddus, Benson Farb, Andrew Putman

Publication date 12 July 2011

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

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)

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 $H_1(Sigma;mathbbZ)$.

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