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We show that the pure mapping class group is uniformly perfect for a certain class of infinite type surfaces with noncompact boundary components. We then combine this result with recent work in the remaining cases to give a complete…
In [10] it was shown that there is a mapping class group-equivariant deformation retraction of the Teichm\"uller space of a closed surface onto a CW complex with dimension equal to the virtual cohomological dimension of the mapping class…
In this article, we study the $(m+2)$-angulations on a Riemann surface, characterized with its boundary components, punctures, and gender. We count the number of arcs in such a surface, and associate a graded quiver with superpotential…
It is proved that the mapping class group of any closed surface with finitely many marked points is quasiisometric to a CAT(0) cube complex. We provide two distinct proofs, one tailored to mapping class groups, and one applying to a larger…
In this paper we consider type-preserving representations of the fundamental group of the three--holed projective plane into $\mathrm{PGL}(2, \R) =\mathrm{Isom}(\HH^2)$ and study the connected components with non-maximal euler class. We…
Let $\mathbb{G}$ be a Lie group with solvable connected component and finitely-generated component group and $\alpha\in H^2(\mathbb{G},\mathbb{S}^1)$ a cohomology class. We prove that if $(\mathbb{G},\alpha)$ is of type I then the same…
We prove that the extended mapping class group is generated by three orientation reversing involutions.
Veech groups uniformize Teichm\"uller geodesic curves in Riemann moduli space. Recently, examples of infinitely generated Veech groups have been given. We show that these can even have infinitely many cusps and infinitely many infinite…
We show that the maximal $1$-system of loops in a punctured projective plane is unique up to the mapping class group action if and only if the number of punctures is at most five.
By using quantum Teichm\"uller theory, we construct a one parameter family of TQFT's on the categroid of admissible leveled shaped 3-manifolds.
If $\mathfrak{p} \subseteq \mathbb{Z}[\zeta]$ is a prime ideal over $p$ in the $(p^d - 1)$th cyclotomic extension of $\mathbb{Z}$, then every element $\alpha$ of the completion $\mathbb{Z}[\zeta]_\mathfrak{p}$ has a unique expansion as a…
This paper extends the decorated Teichm\"uller theory developed before for punctured surfaces to the setting of ``bordered'' surfaces, i.e., surfaces with boundary, and there is non-trivial new structure discovered. The main new result…
Mapping-class groups of 3-manifolds feature as symmetry groups in canonical quantum gravity. They are an obvious source through which topological information could be transmitted into the quantum theory. If treated as gauge symmetries,…
In this paper, we extend the construction of pressure metrics to Teichm\"uller spaces of surfaces with punctures. This construction recovers Thurston's Riemannian metric on Teichm\"uller spaces. Moreover, we prove the real analyticity and…
Class-S theories are four-dimensional N=2 supersymmetric field theories constructed by the reduction of a (2,0) six-dimensional theory on a punctured Riemann surface C (called the UV curve). A basic degeneration limit of the surface C is…
We consider $m$-cluster tilted algebras arising from quivers of Euclidean type and we give necessary and sufficient conditions for those algebras to be representation finite. For the case $\widetilde{A}$, using the geometric realization, we…
The Universal Teichm\"uller Space, $T(1)$, is a universal parameter space for all Riemann surfaces. In earlier work of the first author it was shown that one can canonically associate infinite- dimensional period matrices to the coadjoint…
Modular tensor categories are generalizations of the representation categories of quantum groups at roots of unity axiomatizing the properties necessary to produce 3-dimensional TQFTs. Although other constructions have since been found,…
Unlike the case of surfaces of topologically finite type, there are several different Teichm\"uller spaces that are associated to a surface of topological infinite type. These Teichm\"uller spaces first depend (set-theoretically) on whether…
This note announces the proof of a conjecture of H. Verlinde, according to which the spaces of Liouville conformal blocks and the Hilbert spaces from the quantization of the Teichm\"uller spaces of Riemann surfaces carry equivalent…