Subgroups of Teichmüller modular groups
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Subgroups of Teichmüller modular groups
(Translations of mathematical monographs, v. 115)
American Mathematical Society, c1992
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Подгруппы модулярных групп Тейхмюллера
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 123-125) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Teichmuller modular groups, also known as mapping class groups of surfaces, serve as a meeting ground for several branches of mathematics, including low-dimensional topology, the theory of Teichmuller spaces, group theory, and, more recently, mathematical physics. The present work focuses mainly on the group-theoretic properties of these groups and their subgroups. The technical tools come from Thurston's theory of surfaces--his classification of surface diffeomorphisms and the theory of measured foliations on surfaces. The guiding principle of this investigation is a deep analogy between modular groups and linear groups. For some of the central results of the theory of linear groups (such as the theorems of Platonov, Tits, and Margulis-Soifer), the author provides analogous results for the case of subgroups of modular groups. The results also include a clear geometric picture of subgroups of modular groups and their action on Thurston's boundary of Teichmuller spaces. Aimed at research mathematicians and graduate students, this book is suitable as supplementary material in advanced graduate courses.
Table of Contents
- 1. Diffeomorphisms acting trivially in $H 1(S,Bbb Z/mBbb Z)$. Subgroups $Gamma S(m)$
- 2. Preliminary information from the theory of surfaces
- 3. The action of pure diffeomorphisms on the Thurston boundary
- 4. The action of pure diffeomorphisms on the Thurston boundary
- 5. Pseudo-Anosov elements in irreducible subgroups of the group $Gamma! R(m 0)$, $m 0!ge!3$
- 6. Irreducible subgroups of the group $Gamma R(m 0),m 0ge 3,$ for disconnected surfaces $R$
- 7. The cutting of surfaces, and reduction systems
- 8. Free and abelian subgroups
- 9. Maximal subgroups of infinite index
- 10. Frattini subgroups
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