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Mapping Class Groups of Infinite-Type Surfaces Santana Afton and Samuel Freedman The College of William & Mary, University of Michigan

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Mapping Class Groups of Infinite-Type Surfaces

Santana Afton and Samuel Freedman

The College of William & Mary, University of Michigan

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Outline

▪ Finite-Type Surfaces

▪ Infinite-Type Surfaces

▪ Symmetries

▪ Symmetries of Surfaces

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Finite-Type Surfaces

Sphere Torus 2-holed Torus

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Infinite-Type Surfaces

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Infinite-Type Surfaces

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Infinite-Type Surfaces

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Infinite-Type Surfaces

The Flute Surface

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Infinite-Type Surfaces

The Flute Surface The Blooming Cantor Tree

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What is Symmetry?

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What is Symmetry?

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Mapping Classes

Rotation

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Mapping Classes

Dehn Twist

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Mapping Classes

Handle Shift

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Mapping Class Group

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Mapping Class Group: History

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Mapping Class Group: History

(Dehn)

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Mapping Class Group: History

(Patel-Vlamis)

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Mapping Class Group: History

(AF)

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Classes of Handle Shifts

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One-Ended Handle Shifts

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Handle Shifts - Relations

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Basmajian, Ara. "Hyperbolic structures for surfaces of infinite type." Transactions of the American Mathematical Society 336.1 (1993): 421-444.

Farb, Benson, and Dan Margalit. A Primer on Mapping Class Groups (PMS-49). Princeton University Press, 2011.

Patel, Priyam, and Nicholas G. Vlamis. "Algebraic and topological properties of big mapping class groups." arXiv preprint arXiv:1703.02665 (2017).

Richards, Ian. "On the classification of noncompact surfaces." Transactions of the American Mathematical Society 106.2 (1963): 259-269.

Acknowledgements and CitationsThanks to:

Professor Dan Margalit Justin Lanier

Dr. Nick Vlamis

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Questions?

Infinite jail cell window

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What is the Loch Ness Monster?

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Stacks of Waffles