Event
Asaf Hadari (University of Hawaii at Manoa)
Wednesday, October 21, 2020 15:00to16:00
Title: Mapping class groups that do not virtually surject to the integers.
Abstract: Mapping class groups of surfaces of genus at least 3 are perfect, but their finite-index subgroups need not be--they can have non-trivial abelianizations. A well-known conjecture of Ivanov states that a finite-index subgroup of a mapping class group of a sufficiently high genus has finite abelianization. We will discuss a proof of this conjecture, which goes through an equivalent representation-theoretic form of the conjecture due to Putman and Wieland.
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