Spaces of Pants Decompositions for Surfaces of Infinite Type

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Authors Benjamin Branman

Publication date 25 October 2020

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Dynamical systems involving homeomorphisms and diffeomorphisms of planes and surfaces (37E30) Topological methods in group theory (57M07)

Abstract: We study the pants complex of surfaces of infinite type. When $S$ is a surface of infinite type, the usual definition of the pants graph $mathcalP(S)$ yields a graph with infinitely many connected-components. In the first part of our paper, we study this disconnected graph. In particular, we show that the extended mapping class group $mathrmMod(S)$ is isomorphic to a proper subgroup of $mathrmAut(mathcalP)$, in contrast to the finite-type case where $mathrmMod(S)congmathrmAut(mathcalP(S))$. In the second part of the paper, motivated by the Metaconjecture of Ivanov, we seek to endow $mathcalP(S)$ with additional structure. To this end, we define a coarser topology on $mathcalP(S)$ than the topology inherited from the graph structure. We show that our new space is path-connected, and that its automorphism group is isomorphic to $mathrmMod(S)$.

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