Arithmetic quotients of the mapping class group

DOI10.1007/S00039-015-0352-5zbMATH Open1334.57017arXiv1307.2593OpenAlexW1491118550WikidataQ101426932 ScholiaQ101426932MaRDI QIDQ897000FDOQ897000

Authors: Alexander Lubotzky, Justin Malestein, Fritz Grunewald, Michael Larsen 

Publication date: 16 December 2015

Published in: Geometric and Functional Analysis. GAFA (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: To every $Q$-irreducible representation $r$ of a finite group $H$, there corresponds a simple factor $A$ of $Q[H]$ with an involution $au$. To this pair $(A,au)$, we associate an arithmetic group $Omega$ consisting of all $(2g-2)imes(2g-2)$ matrices over a natural order of $A^{op}$ which preserve a natural skew-Hermitian sesquilinear form on $A^{2g-2}$. We show that if $H$ is generated by less than $g$ elements, then $Omega$ is a virtual quotient of the mapping class group $Mod(Sigm{a}_g)$, i.e. a finite index subgroup of $Omega$ is a quotient of a finite index subgroup of $Mod(Sigm{a}_g)$. This shows that the mapping class group has a rich family of arithmetic quotients (and "Torelli subgroups") for which the classical quotient $Sp(2g,Z)$ is just a first case in a list, the case corresponding to the trivial group $H$ and the trivial representation. Other pairs of $H$ and $r$ give rise to many new arithmetic quotients of $Mod(Sigm{a}_g)$ which are defined over various (subfields of) cyclotomic fields and are of type $Sp(2m),SO(2m,2m),$ and $SU(m,m)$ for arbitrarily large $m$.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1307.2593

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zbMATH Keywords

mapping class grouparithmetic groupclosed surface

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Group rings of finite groups and their modules (group-theoretic aspects) (20C05) General low-dimensional topology (57M99)

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