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Thurston's Ending Lamination Conjecture states that a hyperbolic 3-manifold N with finitely generated fundamental group is uniquely determined by its topological type and its end invariants. In this paper we prove this conjecture for…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2011-03-10 Jeffrey F. Brock , Richard D. Canary , Yair N. Minsky

We determine the possible finite groups $G$ of symplectic automorphisms of hyperk\"ahler manifolds which are deformation equivalent to the second Hilbert scheme of a K3 surface. We prove that $G$ has such an action if, and only if, it is…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-10-13 Gerald Höhn , Geoffrey Mason

In this article, we propose two algorithms for determining the Nielsen-Thurston classification of a mapping class $\psi$ on a surface $S$. We start with a finite generating set $X$ for the mapping class group and a word $\psi$ in $\langle X…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2014-07-16 Thomas Koberda , Johanna Mangahas

We give a numerical criterion for the Nielsen realization problem for Enriques manifolds, based on the recent developments on the Birman-Hilden theory for hyper-K\"ahler manifolds and on Nielsen realization for hyper-K\"ahler manifolds. We…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2026-04-07 Simone Billi

We classify finite-dimensional Nichols algebras over finite nilpotent groups of odd order in group-theoretical terms. The main step is to show that the conjugacy classes of such finite groups are either abelian or of type C; this property…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2021-04-13 Nicolás Andruskiewitsch

Nikulin and Vinberg proved that there are only a finite number of lattices of rank $\geq 3$ that are the N\'eron-Severi group of projective K3 surfaces with a finite automorphism group. The aim of this paper is to provide a more geometric…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2022-02-17 Xavier Roulleau

Let $S$ and $X$ be two connected topological surfaces without boundary, and assume that $S$ is either of infinite type or has negative Euler characteristic. In this paper, we prove that if $p:S\rightarrow X$ is a fully ramified branched…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2026-01-16 Nestor Colin , Ruben Hidalgo , Rita Jiménez Rolland , Israel Morales , Saúl Quispe

For a locally finite connected graph $X$ we consider the group $Maps(X)$ of proper homotopy equivalences of $X$. We show that it has a natural Polish group topology, and we propose these groups as an analog of big mapping class groups. We…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2024-01-17 Yael Algom-Kfir , Mladen Bestvina

We construct a geometric model for the mapping class group M of a non-exceptional oriented surface of finite type and use it to show that the action of M on the compact Hausdorff space of complete geodesic laminations is topologically…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2008-03-19 Ursula Hamenstaedt

Nielsen realization problem for the mapping class group $\text{Mod}(S_g)$ asks whether the natural projection $p_g: \text{Homeo}_+(S_g)\to \text{Mod}(S_g)$ has a section. While all the previous results use torsion elements in an essential…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2019-09-18 Lei Chen , Vladimir Markovic

We show that Nichols algebras of most simple Yetter-Drinfeld modules over the projective special linear group over a finite field, corresponding to semisimple orbits, have infinite dimension. We introduce a new criterium to determine when a…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2018-03-14 Nicolás Andruskiewitsch , Giovanna Carnovale , Gastón Andrés García

We explicitly construct new subgroups of the mapping class groups of an uncountable collection of infinite-type surfaces, including, but not limited to, free groups, Baumslag-Solitar groups, mapping class groups of other surfaces, and a…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2026-02-11 Carolyn R. Abbott , Hannah Hoganson , Marissa Loving , Priyam Patel , Rachel Skipper

We will announce two theorems. The first theorem will classify all topological types of degenerate fibers appearing in one-parameter families of Riemann surfaces, in terms of ``pseudoperiodic'' surface homeomorphisms. The second theorem…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2016-09-06 Yukio Matsumoto , José Mariá Montesinos-Amilibia

A topology is defined on the mapping class group of a compact connected orientable surface. It is shown that a notion of "genericity" on subsets of the mapping class group arises from this definition. Many plausible results follow from this…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-08-06 Ingrid Irmer

The purpose of this note is to prove that the symplectic mapping class groups of many K3 surfaces are infinitely generated. Our proof makes no use of any Floer-theoretic machinery but instead follows the approach of Kronheimer and uses…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2022-02-10 Gleb Smirnov

A topological group $G$ is topologically normally generated if there exists $g \in G$ such that the normal closure of $g$ is dense in $G$. Let $S$ be a tame, infinite type surface whose mapping class group $\mathrm{Map}(S)$ is generated by…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2026-02-04 Juhun Baik

Finite-sheeted covering mappings onto compact connected groups are studied. It is shown that a finite-sheeted covering mapping from a connected Hausdorff topological space onto a compact connected abelian group G must be a homeomorphism…

General Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 S. A. Grigorian , R. N. Gumerov

For each fixed n>=2 we show how the Nielsen-Thurston classification of mapping classes for a closed surface of genus g>=2 is determined by the sequence of quantum SU(n) representations, when one considers all levels. That this is the case…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Jorgen Ellegaard Andersen

We answer two questions about the topology of end spaces of infinite type surfaces and the action of the mapping class group that have appeared in the literature. First, we give examples of infinite type surfaces with end spaces that are…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2022-03-16 Kathryn Mann , Kasra Rafi

We prove Nielsen realisation for finite subgroups of the groups of untwisted outer automorphisms of RAAGs in the following sense: given any graph $\Gamma$, and any finite group $G\leqslant \mathrm{U}^0(A_\Gamma) \leqslant…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2019-01-31 Sebastian Hensel , Dawid Kielak