The Birman exact sequence does not virtually split

DOI10.4310/MRL.2021.V28.N2.A3MaRDI QIDQ6300986arXivFDO

Authors Lei Chen, Nick Salter

Publication date 30 April 2018

Published in arXiv

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.4310/MRL.2021.V28.N2.A3

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Other groups related to topology or analysis (20F38) Riemann surfaces (30F99) 2-dimensional topology (including mapping class groups of surfaces, Teichmüller theory, curve complexes, etc.) (57K20)

arXiv classification

math.GRmath.GT

Abstract: This paper answers a basic question about the Birman exact sequence in the theory of mapping class groups. We prove that the Birman exact sequence does not admit a section over any subgroup $Gamma$ contained in the Torelli group with finite index. A fortiori this proves that there is no section of the Birman exact sequence for any finite-index subgroup of the full mapping class group. This theorem was announced in a 1990 preprint of G. Mess, but an error was uncovered and described in a recent paper of the first author.

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