The girth alternative for mapping class groups.

DOI10.4171/GGD/223MaRDI QIDQ2016101zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Kei Nakamura

Publication date 19 June 2014

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1105.5422

zbMATH Keywords

finitely generated groupsgirth of Cayley graphsmapping class groupsvirtually free-Abelian groups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Graphs and abstract algebra (groups, rings, fields, etc.) (05C25) Subgroup theorems; subgroup growth (20E07) Residual properties and generalizations; residually finite groups (20E26) Generators, relations, and presentations of groups (20F05) Geometric group theory (20F65) Topological methods in group theory (57M07) Group actions on manifolds and cell complexes in low dimensions (57M60)

Abstract: The girth of a finitely generated group G is the supremum of the girth of Cayley graphs for G over all finite generating sets. Let G be a finitely generated subgroup of the mapping class group Mod(S), where S is a compact orientable surface. Then, either G is virtually abelian or it has infinite girth; moreover, if we assume that G is not infinite cyclic, these alternatives are mutually exclusive.

Review text

Summary: The girth of a finitely generated group \(G\) is defined to be the supremum of the girth of its Cayley graphs. Let \(G\) be a finitely generated subgroup of the mapping class group \(\mathrm{Mod}_\Sigma\), where \(\Sigma\) is an orientable closed surface with a finite number of punctures and with a finite number of components. We show that \(G\) is either a non-cyclic group with infinite girth or a virtually free-abelian group; these alternatives are mutually exclusive. The proof is based on a simple dynamical criterion for a finitely generated group to have infinite girth, which may be of independent interest.

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