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Published August 2019 | Submitted
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Surjective homomorphisms between surface braid groups

Chen, Lei ORCID icon

Abstract

Let PB_n(S_(g,p)) be the pure braid group of a genus g > 1 surface with p punctures. In this paper we prove that any surjective homomorphism PB_n(S_(g,p)) → PB_m(S_(g,p)) factors through one of the forgetful homomorphisms. We then compute the automorphism group of PB_m(S_(g,p)), which gives a simpler proof of Irmak–Ivanov–McCarthy [IIM03, Theorem 1]. Surprisingly, in contrast to the n = 1 case, any automorphism of PB_n(S_(g,p)) for n > 1 is geometric.

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© 2019 The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Received April 26, 2017 and in revised form July 12, 2018. First Online: 27 May 2019. The author is grateful to anonymous referees and Maxime Bergeron for suggestions on the writing. She would also like to extend her warmest thanks to Benson Farb for his extensive comments and for his invaluable support from start to finish.

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