Ivanov’s Metaconjecture

Alan McLeay (University of Glasgow)

Wednesday 25th January, 2017 16:00-17:00 Maths 515

Abstract

It is a well-known and fundamental result of Ivanov that the curve complex of an orientable surface with punctures has automorphism group isomorphic to the extended mapping class group of the surface. It was subsequently shown that the equivalent statement is true for a number of other complexes, among them the pants complex (Margalit) and the separating curve complex (Brendle-Margalit, Kida). Such results led Ivanov to make a meta-conjecture: all sufficiently rich complexes related to the surface will have automorphism group isomorphic to the extended mapping class group. A result by Brendle-Margalit shows this to be true for a broad class of complexes for closed surfaces. In this talk I will give the more general result for complexes relating to surfaces with punctures.

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