Pillar switchings and acyclic embedding in mapping class group
Abstract
The braid group is embedded in the ribbon braid group that is defined to be the mapping class group . By gluing two copies of surface along holes, we get surface . A pillar switching is a self-homeomorphism of which switches two pillars of surfaces by horizontal rotation. We analyze the actions of pillar switchings on and then give concrete expressions of pillar switchings in terms of standard Dehn twists. The map sending the generators of to pillar switchings on is defined by extending the embedding . We show that this map is injective by analyzing the actions of pillar switchings on . The second part of this paper is to prove that this map induces a trivial homology homomorphism in the stable range. For the proof we use the categorical delooping. We construct a suitable monoidal 2-functor from tile category to surface category and show that this functor thus induces a map of double loop spaces.
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@article{arxiv.1202.3222,
title = {Pillar switchings and acyclic embedding in mapping class group},
author = {Chan-Seok Jeong and Yongjin Song},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1202.3222},
year = {2014}
}
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arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1005.1300 by other authors