Surjective homomorphism between surface braid groups

Series
Geometry Topology Seminar
Time
Tuesday, June 27, 2017 - 2:05pm for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
Location
Skiles 006
Speaker
Lei Chen – University of Chicago
Organizer
Dan Margalit
I will talk about homomorphisms between surface braid groups. Firstly, we will see that any surjective homomorphism from PB_n(S) to PB_m(S) factors through a forgetful map. Secondly, we will compute the automorphism group of PB_n(S). It turns out to be the mapping class group when n>1.