Zero entropy subgroups of mapping class groups

DOI10.1007/S10711-016-0178-9MaRDI QIDQ510389zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors John Franks, K. Parwani

Publication date 17 February 2017

Published in Geometriae Dedicata (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1502.02288

zbMATH Keywords

diffeomorphismentropyhomeomorphismmapping class group

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Braid groups; Artin groups (20F36) Dynamics induced by group actions other than (mathbb{Z}) and (mathbb{R}), and (mathbb{C}) (37C85) Dynamical systems involving homeomorphisms and diffeomorphisms of planes and surfaces (37E30) Combinatorics and topology in relation with holomorphic dynamical systems (37F20) Group actions on manifolds and cell complexes in low dimensions (57M60) Groups of diffeomorphisms and homeomorphisms as manifolds (58D05)

Abstract: Let $M$ be a compact surface with boundary. We are interested in the question of how a group action on $M$ permutes a finite invariant set $Xsubsetint(M)$. More precisely, how the algebraic properties of the induced group of permutations of a finite invariant set affects the dynamical properties of the group. Our main result shows that in many circumstances if the induced permutation group is not solvable then among the homeomorphisms in the group there must be one with a pseudo-Anosov component. We formulate this in terms of the mapping class group relative to the finite set and show the stronger result that in many circumstances (e.g. if $partialMeemptyset$) this mapping class group is itself solvable if it has no elements with pseudo-Anosov components.

Review text

Let \(M\) be a compact surface with boundary and let \(X\) be a finite set of points in the interior of \(M\). Let \(\mathcal{B}(M,X)\) denote the mapping class group of \(M\setminus X\), i.e., \(\mathcal{B}(M,X)\) is the group of isotopy classes of homeomorphisms of \(M\) which fix the boundary \(\partial M\) of \(M\) pointwise and permute the elements of \(X\). The isotopies, as well as the homeomorphisms, are required to fix \(\partial M\) pointwise. The authors investigate how the dynamical properties of a group action on a surface with a finite invariant set are affected by the algebraic properties of the induced group of permutations of the invariant set. In particular, they investigate how the dynamical properties of the mapping class group \(\mathcal{B}(M,X)\) are affected by the algebraic properties of the induced group of permutations of the finite set \(X\). It is shown that if the induced permutation group is not solvable, then among the homemorphisms in the group there must in many circumstances be one with a pseudo-Anosov component. For the mapping class group \(\mathcal{B}(M,X)\) the authors obtain the stronger result that in many circumstances (e.g., if \(\partial M \neq \emptyset\)) this group is solvable if it has no elements with pseudo-Anosov components.

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