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We study the action of the elements of the mapping class group of a surface of finite type on the Teichmuller space of that surface equipped with Thurstons asymmetric metric. We classify such actions as elliptic, parabolic, hyperbolic and pseudo-hyperbolic, depending on whether the translation distance of such an element is zero or positive and whether the value of this translation distance is attained or not, and we relate these four types to Thurstons classification of mapping classes. The study is parallel to the one made by Bers in the setting of Teichmuller space equipped with Teichmullers metric, and to the one made by Daskalopoulos and Wentworth in the setting of Teichmuller space equipped with the Weil-Petersson metric.
We address the question of determining which mapping class groups of infinite-type surfaces admit nonelementary continuous actions on hyperbolic spaces. More precisely, let $Sigma$ be a connected, orientable surface of infinite type with tame endsp
We study two actions of big mapping class groups. The first is an action by isometries on a Gromov-hyperbolic graph. The second is an action by homeomorphisms on a circle in which the vertices of the graph naturally embed. The first two parts of th
We study the action of (big) mapping class groups on the first homology of the corresponding surface. We give a precise characterization of the image of the induced homology representation.
In this paper, we discuss relations among several invariants of 3-manifolds including Meyers function, the eta-invariant, the von Neumann rho-invariant and the Casson invariant from the viewpoint of the mapping class group of a surface.
We study the TQFT mapping class group representations for surfaces with boundary associated with the $SU(2)$ gauge group, or equivalently the quantum group $U_q(Sl(2))$. We show that at a prime root of unity, these representations are all irreducible