The Schwarz-Milnor lemma for braids and area-preserving diffeomorphisms

DOI10.1007/S00029-022-00784-0MaRDI QIDQ6367306arXivWikidataFDO

Authors Michael Brandenbursky, Michał Marcinkowski, Egor Shelukhin

Publication date 10 May 2021

Published in arXiv

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/S00029-022-00784-0

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geometric group theory (20F65) Dynamical systems involving smooth mappings and diffeomorphisms (37C05) Dynamical systems involving homeomorphisms and diffeomorphisms of planes and surfaces (37E30) Flows on surfaces (37E35) Topological methods in group theory (57M07) Differential topological aspects of diffeomorphisms (57R50) Topological properties of groups of homeomorphisms or diffeomorphisms (57S05)

arXiv classification

math.DGmath.GRmath.GTmath.SG

Abstract: We prove a number of new results on the large-scale geometry of the $L^p$-metrics on the group of area-preserving diffeomorphisms of each orientable surface. Our proofs use in a key way the Fulton-MacPherson type compactification of the configuration space of $n$ points on the surface due to Axelrod-Singer and Kontsevich. This allows us to apply the Schwarz-Milnor lemma to configuration spaces, a natural approach which we carry out successfully for the first time. As sample results, we prove that all right-angled Artin groups admit quasi-isometric embeddings into the group of area-preserving diffeomorphisms endowed with the $L^p$-metric, and that all Gambaudo-Ghys quasi-morphisms on this metric group coming from the braid group on $n$ strands are Lipschitz. This was conjectured to hold, yet proven only for low values of $n$ and the genus $g$ of the surface.

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