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On the dimension of CAT(0) spaces where mapping class groups act

  • Martin R. Bridson EMAIL logo
Published/Copyright: December 21, 2011

Abstract

Whenever the mapping class group of a closed orientable surface of genus g acts by semisimple isometries on a complete CAT(0) space of dimension less than g, it fixes a point.


Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford, 24-29 St Giles', Oxford OX1 3LB, U.K.

Received: 2010-07-22
Revised: 2011-01-12
Published Online: 2011-12-21
Published in Print: 2012-12

©[2012] by Walter de Gruyter Berlin Boston

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