Copies of one-ended groups in mapping class groups

DOI10.4171/GGD/61MaRDI QIDQ838394zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors François Dahmani, Koji Fujiwara

Publication date 25 August 2009

Published in Groups, Geometry, and Dynamics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0709.0797

zbMATH Keywords

curve complexmapping class grouppseudo-Anosov homeomorphism

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geometric group theory (20F65) General low-dimensional topology (57M99)

Abstract: We establish that, given $Sigma$ a compact orientable surface, and $G$ a finitely presented one-ended group, the set of copies of $G$ in the mapping class group $mathcalMCG(Sigma)$ consisting of only pseudo-anosov elements except identity, is finite up to conjugacy. This relies on a result of Bowditch on the same problem for images of surfaces groups. He asked us whether we could reduce the case of one-ended groups to his result ; this is a positive answer. Our work involves analogues of Rips and Sela canonical cylinders in curve complexes, and the argument of Delzant to bound the number of images of a one-ended group in a hyperbolic group.

Review text

In this paper, \(\Sigma\) is a compact orientable surface with or without boundary, and \({\mathcal {MCG}}(\Sigma)\) is its mapping class group. A subgroup of \({\mathcal {MCG}}(\Sigma)\) is said to be purely pseudo-Anosiv if all its elements except the identity are pseudo-Anosov. The main result of this paper is that for any finitely presented one-ended group, the set of purely pseudo-Anosov subgroups of \({\mathcal {MCG}}(\Sigma)\) that are isomorphic to \(G\) is finite up to conjugacy in \({\mathcal {MCG}}(\Sigma)\). The proof relies on a result by B. Bowditch on the same problem for images of surface groups. The techniques of proof involve the action of \({\mathcal {MCG}}(\Sigma)\) on the curve complex of \(\Sigma\).

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• Bounding surface actions on hyperbolic spaces.
• One-ended subgroups of mapping class groups
• Atoroidal surface bundles over surfaces.
• Right-angled Artin groups as normal subgroups of mapping class groups

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