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The normal closure of a homological genus 0 bounding pair map

Geometric Topology 2025-11-19 v1

Abstract

Justin Lanier and the authors recently determined the group normally generated by a single bounding pair map of genus nn. We related this subgroup with the Chillingworth subgroup and the Casson--Morita's dd map. In this paper, we extend the results to the case when n=0n=0. Let Mg1\mathcal{M}_g^1 be the mapping class group, Chg1\text{Ch}_g^1 be the Chillingworth subgroup and dd be the Casson--Morita's dd-map. We show that Ker(d)=[Chg1,Mg1]\text{Ker}(d)=[\text{Ch}_g^1,\mathcal{M}_g^1] and it is generated by a single homological genus 0 bounding pair map. We also construct an element H0Chg1H_0\in \text{Ch}_g^1, and show that Chg1\text{Ch}_g^1 is normally generated by this single element H0H_0.

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@article{arxiv.2511.14616,
  title  = {The normal closure of a homological genus 0 bounding pair map},
  author = {Lei Chen and Weiyan Chen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2511.14616},
  year   = {2025}
}

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26 pages, 9 figures