English

Copies of a one-ended group in a Mapping Class Group

Group Theory 2020-07-20 v2

Abstract

We establish that, given Σ\Sigma a compact orientable surface, and GG a finitely presented one-ended group, the set of copies of GG in the mapping class group MCG(Σ)\mathcal{MCG}(\Sigma) consisting of only pseudo-anosov elements except identity, is finite up to conjugacy. This relies on a result of Bowditch on the same problem for images of surfaces groups. He asked us whether we could reduce the case of one-ended groups to his result ; this is a positive answer. Our work involves analogues of Rips and Sela canonical cylinders in curve complexes, and the argument of Delzant to bound the number of images of a one-ended group in a hyperbolic group.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.0709.0797,
  title  = {Copies of a one-ended group in a Mapping Class Group},
  author = {Francois Dahmani and Koji Fujiwara},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0709.0797},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

16 pages, 3 figures, revised

R2 v1 2026-06-21T09:14:28.603Z