Crossed homomorphisms and low dimensional representations of mapping class groups of surfaces

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Abstract: We continue the study of low dimensional linear representations of mapping class groups of surfaces initiated by Franks--Handel and Korkmaz. We consider (2g+1)-dimensional complex linear representations of the pure mapping class groups of compact orientable surfaces of genus g. We give a complete classification of such representations for ggeq7 up to conjugation, in terms of certain twisted 1-cohomology groups of the mapping class groups. A new ingredient is to use the computation of a related twisted 1-cohomology group by Morita. The classification result implies in particular that there are no irreducible linear representations of dimension 2g+1 for ggeq7, which marks a contrast with the case g=2.









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