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Quasimorphisms on nonorientable surface diffeomorphism groups

Geometric Topology 2024-11-07 v3 Group Theory

Abstract

Bowden, Hensel, and Webb constructed infinitely many quasimorphisms on the diffeomorphism groups of orientable surfaces. In this paper, we extend their result to nonorientable surfaces. Namely, we prove that the space of nontrivial quasimorphisms QH~(Diff0(Ng))\widetilde{QH}(\mathrm{Diff}_0(N_g)) on the identity component of the diffeomorphism group Diff0(Ng)\mathrm{Diff}_0(N_g) on a closed nonorientable surface NgN_g of genus g3g\geq 3 is infinite-dimensional. As a corollary, we obtain the unboundedness of the commutator length and the fragmentation length on Diff0(Ng)\mathrm{Diff}_0(N_g).

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@article{arxiv.2111.05540,
  title  = {Quasimorphisms on nonorientable surface diffeomorphism groups},
  author = {Mitsuaki Kimura and Erika Kuno},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2111.05540},
  year   = {2024}
}

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Revised to improve readability, 17 pages

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