Trees and mapping class groups

DOI10.1515/CRELLE.2009.087MaRDI QIDQ3404367zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Richard Peabody IV Kent, Christopher J. Leininger, Saul Schleimer

Publication date 9 February 2010

Published in Journal für die reine und angewandte Mathematik (Crelles Journal) (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0611241

zbMATH Keywords

convex cocompactcurve complexmapping class grouppseudo-Anosov

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geometric group theory (20F65) Topological methods in group theory (57M07) General low-dimensional topology (57M99)

Abstract: There is a forgetful map from the mapping class group of a punctured surface to that of the surface with one fewer puncture. We prove that finitely generated purely pseudo-Anosov subgroups of the kernel of this map are convex cocompact in the sense of B. Farb and L. Mosher. In particular, we obtain an affirmative answer to their question of local convex cocompactness of K. Whittlesey's group. In the course of the proof, we obtain a new proof of a theorem of I. Kra. We also relate the action of this kernel on the curve complex to a family of actions on trees. This quickly yields a new proof of a theorem of J. Harer.

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