Non-realizability of some big mapping class groups

DOI10.1090/PROC/16860MaRDI QIDQ6602175zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Lei Chen, Yan Mary He

Publication date 11 September 2024

Published in Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1090/PROC/16860

zbMATH Keywords

forgetful homomorphismhomeomorphism groupmapping class groupNielsen realization problemsection

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

2-dimensional topology (including mapping class groups of surfaces, Teichmüller theory, curve complexes, etc.) (57K20) Topological properties of groups of homeomorphisms or diffeomorphisms (57S05)

Review text

For an orientable surface \(X\) let \(\mathcal H^+(X)\) and \(\mathcal M(X)\) denote, respectively, the group of orientation-preserving homeomorphisms and the mapping class group of \(X\), and \(p:\mathcal H^+(X)\to\mathcal M(X)\) the forgetful homomorphism: a subscript \(c\) will denote `with compact support'. It is shown that \(p:\mathcal H^+(S_{3,1})\to\mathcal M(S_{3,1})\) has no sections, where \(S_{3,1}\) is the surface of genus 3 and 1 boundary component, hence \(p_c:\mathcal H^+_c(X)\to\mathcal M_c(X)\) has no sections when the surface \(X\) has a genus 3 subsurface. Also if \(X=\mathbb R^2\setminus C\) or \(X=\mathbb S^2\setminus C\) for certain \(C\), including the Cantor set and the ordinal \(\omega_\alpha+1\), then \(p:\mathcal H^+(X)\to\mathcal M(X)\) has no sections.

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