{ "id": "2103.06930", "version": "v1", "published": "2021-03-11T20:02:08.000Z", "updated": "2021-03-11T20:02:08.000Z", "title": "Virtual algebraic fibrations of surface-by-surface groups and orbits of the mapping class group", "authors": [ "Robert Kropholler", "Stefano Vidussi", "Genevieve Walsh" ], "comment": "14 pages", "categories": [ "math.GT", "math.GR" ], "abstract": "We show that a conjecture of Putman-Wieland, which posits the nonexistence of finite orbits for higher Prym representations of the mapping class group, is equivalent to the existence of surface-by-surface and surface-by-free groups which do not virtually algebraically fiber.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v1", "updated": "2021-03-11T20:02:08.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "keywords": [ "mapping class group", "virtual algebraic fibrations", "surface-by-surface groups", "higher prym representations", "finite orbits" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 14, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable" } } }