Commensurators of abelian subgroups and the virtually abelian dimension of mapping class groups

Abstract: Let

m a t h r m M o d (S)

be the mapping class group of a compact connected orientable surface

S

, possibly with punctures and boundary components, with negative Euler characteristic. We prove that for any infinite virtually abelian subgroup

H

of

m a t h r m M o d (S)

, there is a subgroup

H^{'}

commensurable with

H

such that the commensurator of

H

equals the normalizer of

H^{'}

. As a consequence we give, for each

n g e q 2

, an upper bound for the geometric dimension of

m a t h r m M o d (S)

for the family of abelian subgroups of rank bounded by

n

. These results generalize work by Juan-Pineda--Trujillo-Negrete and Nucinkis--Petrosyan for the virtually cyclic case.

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