On the linearity problem for mapping class groups

DOI10.2140/AGT.2001.1.445zbMATH Open0977.57014arXivmath/0103148OpenAlexW2146073550MaRDI QIDQ5942400FDOQ5942400

Tara E. Brendle, Hessam Hamidi-Tehrani

Publication date: 29 August 2001

Published in: Algebraic \& Geometric Topology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Formanek and Procesi have demonstrated that Aut(F_n) is not linear for n >2. Their technique is to construct nonlinear groups of a special form, which we call FP-groups, and then to embed a special type of automorphism group, which we call a poison group, in Aut(F_n), from which they build an FP-group. We first prove that poison groups cannot be embedded in certain mapping class groups. We then show that no FP-groups of any form can be embedded in mapping class groups. Thus the methods of Formanek and Procesi fail in the case of mapping class groups, providing strong evidence that mapping class groups may in fact be linear.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0103148

zbMATH Keywords

diffeomorphismgraph of groupsgrouprepresentationlinearpuremapping classpoison

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geometric group theory (20F65) Topological methods in group theory (57M07) Fundamental groups and their automorphisms (group-theoretic aspects) (20F34) General low-dimensional topology (57M99)

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