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Bounded cohomology of subgroups of mapping class groups

Mladen Bestvina, Koji Fujiwara

math.GTarXiv:math/0012115

Abstract

We show that every subgroup of the mapping class group MCG(S) of a compact surface S is either virtually abelian or it has infinite dimensional second bounded cohomology. As an application, we give another proof of the Farb-Kaimanovich-Masur rigidity theorem that states that MCG(S) does not contain a higher rank lattice as a subgroup.

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