Automatic continuity of pure mapping class groups

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Authors Ryan Dickmann

Publication date 19 July 2024

Published in The New York Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

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zbMATH Keywords

automatic continuityboundarymanifold with boundarymapping class groupnon-compactnoncompactPolish grouppure mapping class grouptopological group

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geometric group theory (20F65) 2-dimensional topology (including mapping class groups of surfaces, Teichmüller theory, curve complexes, etc.) (57K20) Topological methods in group theory (57M07) Topological properties of groups of homeomorphisms or diffeomorphisms (57S05)

Review text

For a metrisable, connected, orientable surface \(S\), let \(\mathrm{Map}(S)\) be the mapping class group of \(S\), i.e. the group of homeomorphisms of \(S\) fixing the boundary pointwise modulo isotopy relative to the boundary, and \(\mathrm{PMap}(S)\) the pure mapping class group of \(S\), i.e. the subgroup of \(\mathrm{Map}(S)\) fixing the ends. If \(S\) is a connected sum of finitely many discs with handles with a finite type surface and has finitely many ends accumulated by genus then \(\mathrm{PMap}(S)\) and \(\mathrm{Map}(S)\) have automatic continuity, with the converse also holding for the former group. A corresponding characterisation is given for the closure of the subgroup of compactly supported classes. \(\mathrm{Map}(S)\) does not have automatic continuity if \(S\) is of infinite type with finitely many ends and no noncompact boundary components.

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