Low‐dimensional linear representations of mapping class groups

DOI10.1112/TOPO.12305MaRDI QIDQ6072544zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

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Publication date 15 September 2023

Published in Journal of Topology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1104.4816

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mapping class grouprepresentation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Other groups related to topology or analysis (20F38) 2-dimensional topology (including mapping class groups of surfaces, Teichmüller theory, curve complexes, etc.) (57K20)

Abstract: Recently, John Franks and Michael Handel proved that, for $ggeq3$ and $nleq2g-4$, every homomorphism from the mapping class group of an orientable surface of genus $g$ to $GL(n,C)$ is trivial. We extend this result to $nleq2g-1$, also covering the case $g=2$. As an application, we prove the corresponding result for nonorientable surfaces. Another application is on the triviality of homomorphisms from the mapping class group of a closed surface of genus $g$ to $Aut(F_n)$ or to $Out(F_n)$ for $nleq2g-1$.

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