Relative Weight Filtrations on Completions of Mapping Class Groups

dc.creatorHain, Richard
dc.date2008-02-06
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T09:19:04Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T09:19:04Z
dc.descriptionThis paper gives an exposition of relative weight filtrations on completions of mapping class groups associated to a stable degeneration of marked genus g curves. These relative weight filtrations have been constructed using Galois theory (with Matsumoto) and Hodge theory (with Pearlstein and Terasoma). It is shown that the level 0 part of the relative weight filtration is an analogue of a parabolic subalgebra of a Kac-Moody Lie algebra. It is shown that all such subalgebras correspond to equivalence classes of pants decompositions of the surface -- two being equivalent if and only if they determine the same handlebody that the reference surface bounds. One application is to show that handlebody subgroups of mapping class groups contain elements arbitrarily far down the lower central series of Torelli groups. (This result was also obtained independently by Jamie Jorgensen.)
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/0802.0814
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/0802.0814
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/154252
dc.subjectGeometric Topology
dc.subjectAlgebraic Geometry
dc.subjectNumber Theory
dc.titleRelative Weight Filtrations on Completions of Mapping Class Groups
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