Topological normal generation of big mapping class groups
Abstract
A topological group is topologically normally generated if there exists such that the normal closure of is dense in . Let be a tame, infinite type surface whose mapping class group is generated by a coarsely bounded set (CB generated). We prove that if the end space of is countable, then is topologically normally generated if and only if is uniquely self-similar. Moreover, when the end space of is uncountable, we provide a sufficient condition under which is topologically normally generated. As a consequence, we construct uncountably many examples of surfaces that are not telescoping yet have topologically normally generated mapping class groups. Additionally, we establish the semidirect product structure of , the subgroup of that pointwisely fixes all maximal ends that each is isolated in the set of maximal ends of . This result leads to a proof that the minimum number of topological normal generators of is bounded both above and below by constants that depend only on the topology of . Furthermore, we demonstrate that the upper bound grows quadratically with respect to this constant.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2409.12700,
title = {Topological normal generation of big mapping class groups},
author = {Juhun Baik},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2409.12700},
year = {2026}
}
Comments
25 pages, 9 figures, Comments are welcome!