{ "id": "math/9905182", "version": "v1", "published": "1999-05-28T14:41:21.000Z", "updated": "1999-05-28T14:41:21.000Z", "title": "Actions and irreducible representations of the mapping class group", "authors": [ "L. Paris" ], "comment": "14 pages, 1 figure, see http://math.u-bourgogne.fr/topolog/paris/index.htlm", "categories": [ "math.GT", "math.GR" ], "abstract": "We prove in this paper that the action of the mapping class group on the complex of curves has noncommensurable stabilizers. Following a method due to Burger and de la Harpe, this action leads to constructions of irreducible unitary representations of the mapping class group.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v1", "updated": "1999-05-28T14:41:21.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "subjects": [ "57N05", "20F38", "22D10", "22D30" ], "keywords": [ "mapping class group", "irreducible representations", "irreducible unitary representations", "noncommensurable stabilizers", "constructions" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 14, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable", "adsabs": "1999math......5182P" } } }