Geometry/topology Seminar
Monday, November 6, 2017, 3:15pm, 119 Physics
Tori Akin (Duke University)
Automorphisms of the Punctured Mapping Class Group
Abstract:- We can describe the point-pushing subgroup of the mapping class group topologically as the set of maps that push a puncture around loops in the surface. However, we can characterize this topological subgroup in purely algebraic terms. Using group theoretic tools and a classical theorem of Burnside, we can recover a result of Ivanov-McCarthy establishing the triviality of Out(Mod±). To this end, well demonstrate that the point-pushing subgroup is unique in the mapping class group. [video]
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