Baumslag-Solitar subgroups of the mapping class group

Pankaj Kapari, Dev Krishna, Kashyap Rajeevsarathy

For $g\ge 2$ and nonzero integers $p,q$, let $\mathrm{Mod}(S_g)$ be the mapping class group of a closed oriented surface $S_g$ of genus $g$, and let $\mathrm{BS}(p,q)$ be the Baum…