A new construction of subgroups of big mapping class groups

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Hauptverfasser: Abbott, Carolyn R., Hoganson, Hannah, Loving, Marissa, Patel, Priyam, Skipper, Rachel
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author Abbott, Carolyn R.
Hoganson, Hannah
Loving, Marissa
Patel, Priyam
Skipper, Rachel
author_facet Abbott, Carolyn R.
Hoganson, Hannah
Loving, Marissa
Patel, Priyam
Skipper, Rachel
contents We explicitly construct new subgroups of the mapping class groups of an uncountable collection of infinite-type surfaces, including, but not limited to, free groups, Baumslag-Solitar groups, mapping class groups of other surfaces, and a large collection of wreath products. For each such subgroup $H$ and surface $S$, we show that there are countably many non-conjugate embeddings of $H$ into $\textrm{Map}(S)$; in certain cases, there are uncountably many such embeddings. The images of each of these embeddings cannot lie in the isometry group of $S$ for any hyperbolic metric and are not contained in the closure of the compactly supported subgroup of $\textrm{Map}(S)$. In this sense, our construction is new and does not rely on previously known techniques for constructing subgroups of mapping class groups. Notably, our embeddings of $\textrm{Map}(S')$ into $\textrm{Map}(S)$ are not induced by embeddings of $S'$ into $S$. Our main tool for all of these constructions is the utilization of special homeomorphisms of $S$ called shift maps, and more generally, multipush maps.
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spellingShingle A new construction of subgroups of big mapping class groups
Abbott, Carolyn R.
Hoganson, Hannah
Loving, Marissa
Patel, Priyam
Skipper, Rachel
Geometric Topology
Group Theory
57K20, 57M07 (Primary) 20E07, 20E08 (Secondary)
We explicitly construct new subgroups of the mapping class groups of an uncountable collection of infinite-type surfaces, including, but not limited to, free groups, Baumslag-Solitar groups, mapping class groups of other surfaces, and a large collection of wreath products. For each such subgroup $H$ and surface $S$, we show that there are countably many non-conjugate embeddings of $H$ into $\textrm{Map}(S)$; in certain cases, there are uncountably many such embeddings. The images of each of these embeddings cannot lie in the isometry group of $S$ for any hyperbolic metric and are not contained in the closure of the compactly supported subgroup of $\textrm{Map}(S)$. In this sense, our construction is new and does not rely on previously known techniques for constructing subgroups of mapping class groups. Notably, our embeddings of $\textrm{Map}(S')$ into $\textrm{Map}(S)$ are not induced by embeddings of $S'$ into $S$. Our main tool for all of these constructions is the utilization of special homeomorphisms of $S$ called shift maps, and more generally, multipush maps.
title A new construction of subgroups of big mapping class groups
topic Geometric Topology
Group Theory
57K20, 57M07 (Primary) 20E07, 20E08 (Secondary)
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2109.05976