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BIG MAPPING CLASS GROUPS WITH HYPERBOLIC ACTIONS: CLASSIFICATION AND APPLICATIONS

Part of: Special aspects of infinite or finite groups Low-dimensional topology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2021

Camille Horbez Open the ORCID record for Camille Horbez [Opens in a new window] ,
Yulan Qing  and
Kasra Rafi
Camille Horbez
Affiliation:
Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS, Laboratoire de mathématiques d’Orsay, 91405, Orsay, France ([email protected])
Yulan Qing
Affiliation:
Shanghai Center for Mathematical Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai, China ([email protected])
Kasra Rafi
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada ([email protected])
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Abstract

We address the question of determining which mapping class groups of infinite-type surfaces admit nonelementary continuous actions on hyperbolic spaces.

More precisely, let $\Sigma $ be a connected, orientable surface of infinite type with tame endspace whose mapping class group is generated by a coarsely bounded subset. We prove that ${\mathrm {Map}}(\Sigma )$ admits a continuous nonelementary action on a hyperbolic space if and only if $\Sigma $ contains a finite-type subsurface which intersects all its homeomorphic translates.

When $\Sigma $ contains such a nondisplaceable subsurface K of finite type, the hyperbolic space we build is constructed from the curve graphs of K and its homeomorphic translates via a construction of Bestvina, Bromberg and Fujiwara. Our construction has several applications: first, the second bounded cohomology of ${\mathrm {Map}}(\Sigma )$ contains an embedded $\ell ^1$ ; second, using work of Dahmani, Guirardel and Osin, we deduce that ${\mathrm {Map}} (\Sigma )$ contains nontrivial normal free subgroups (while it does not if $\Sigma $ has no nondisplaceable subsurface of finite type), has uncountably many quotients and is SQ-universal.

Keywords

mapping class groups of infinite-type surfacesgroup actions on hyperbolic spacesnormal subgroupsSQ-universalitybounded cohomologynondisplaceable subsurfaces

MSC classification

Primary: 20F65: Geometric group theory
Secondary: 20F67: Hyperbolic groups and nonpositively curved groups 57M60: Group actions in low dimensions
Type
Research Article
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Journal of the Institute of Mathematics of Jussieu , Volume 21 , Issue 6 , November 2022 , pp. 2173 - 2204
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© The Author(s), 2021. Published by Cambridge University Press

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