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 on the identity component of the diffeomorphism group on a closed nonorientable surface of genus is infinite-dimensional. As a corollary, we obtain the unboundedness of the commutator length and the fragmentation length on .
Cite
@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}
}
Comments
Revised to improve readability, 17 pages