Normal generators of Torelli groups

Publication date 22 February 2023

Group actions on manifolds and cell complexes in low dimensions (57M60) Fundamental groups and their automorphisms (group-theoretic aspects) (20F34) 2-dimensional topology (including mapping class groups of surfaces, Teichmüller theory, curve complexes, etc.) (57K20)

Abstract: Johnson showed that the genus 1 bounding pair maps generate the Torelli group of a surface when its genus is at least 3. We show that this generalizes: apart from straightforward exceptions, the bounding pair maps of any fixed genus also generate the Torelli group. We give some applications of this result to normal subgroups of mapping class groups acting on curve complexes.

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