Let be a disjoint iteration group on the unit circle , that is a family of homeomorphisms such that for , and each either is the identity mapping or has no fixed point ( is a -divisible nontrivial Abelian group). Denote by the set of all cluster points of , for . In this paper we give a general construction of disjoint iteration groups for which .
Let be a compact connected oriented surface with one boundary component, and let be the fundamental group of . The Johnson filtration is a decreasing sequence of subgroups of the Torelli group of , whose -th term consists of the self-homeomorphisms of that act trivially at the level of the -th nilpotent quotient of . Morita defined a homomorphism from the -th term of the Johnson filtration to the third homology group of the -th nilpotent quotient of . In this paper, we replace groups...
We prove that the mapping class group and the pure mapping class group of closed non-orientable surfaces with punctures are generated by involutions.
We consider a simple, possibly disconnected, d-sheeted branched covering π of a closed 2-dimensional disk D by a surface X. The isotopy classes of homeomorphisms of D which are pointwise fixed on the boundary of D and permute the branch values, form the braid group Bₙ, where n is the number of branch values. Some of these homeomorphisms can be lifted to homeomorphisms of X which fix pointwise the fiber over the base point. They form a subgroup of finite index in Bₙ. For each equivalence class...
Let B be a 3-dimensional handlebody of genus g. Let ℳ be the group of the isotopy classes of orientation preserving homeomorphisms of B. We construct a 2-dimensional simplicial complex X, connected and simply-connected, on which ℳ acts by simplicial transformations and has only a finite number of orbits. From this action we derive an explicit finite presentation of ℳ.
We study the ideal triangulation graph of an oriented punctured surface of finite type. We show that if is not the sphere with at most three punctures or the torus with one puncture, then the natural map from the extended mapping class group of into the simplicial automorphism group of is an isomorphism. We also show that the graph of such a surface , equipped with its natural simplicial metric is not Gromov hyperbolic. We also show that if the triangulation graph of two oriented punctured...