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

DOI10.1007/S00029-022-00784-0arXiv2105.04658WikidataQ125026643 ScholiaQ125026643MaRDI QIDQ6367306FDOQ6367306

Michał Marcinkowski, Michael Brandenbursky, Egor Shelukhin

Publication date: 10 May 2021

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.

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) Topological methods in group theory (57M07) Topological properties of groups of homeomorphisms or diffeomorphisms (57S05) Differential topological aspects of diffeomorphisms (57R50) Flows on surfaces (37E35)

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