Finite Groups of Mapping Classes of Surfaces
Finite Groups of Mapping Classes of Surfaces
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曲面映射类的有限群
DOI:
10.1007/bfb0090465
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发表时间:
1981
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通讯作者:
H. Zieschang
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H. Zieschang
These Notes center around the Nielsen Realization Problem, ie the question whether a finite group of mapping classes of a surface can be realized by a finite groups of mappings. This was first answered positively for the case of cyclic groups in where Nielsen used geometrical arguments developed in the other famous Acta papers. Using Fricke moduli reproved and generalized the theorem of [Nielsen 1942] to the case of finite solvable groups of mapping classes. This assumption is due to the use of the Smith fixed point theorem. Later gave a positive answer for the general case. In his proof he used some curvature properties of Teichmüller spaces which imply a stronger fixed point theorem than the Smith fixed point theorem.(The result and approach of [Fenchel 1948, 1950] was rediscovered in using Teichmüller theory.) Based on the theorem of [Kravetz 1959] gave a positive answer to a question of A. Karrass whether a finite torsionfree extension of a surface group is again a surface group; this question was interesting because it is parallel to the similar problem on free groups which was answered positively slightly earlier in [Stallings 1968] and [Swan 1969]. However, at the same time here arose some doubts about the main result of [Kravetz 1959] and by an example later showed that the result of Kravetz on the curvature of the Teichmüller space is not true; hence, the application to the Nielsen Realization Problem is not consistently founded. On the other hand it turned out, as shown by some examples in that the discussion at the end of [Nielsen 1942] is not correct; nevertheless, the main theorem of [Nielsen 1942] remains valid, since it is a consequence of [Fenchel 1948, 1950]. That the answer to the Nielsen Realization Problem is positive in general has been claimed in a detailed proof is not yet available. Partial answers, weaker than those which can be obtained by the methods of