Local wild mapping class groups and cabled braids

Abstract

We will define and study some generalisations of pure g-braid groups that occur in the theory of connections on curves, for any complex reductive Lie algebra g. They make up local pieces of the wild mapping class groups, which are fundamental groups of (universal) deformations of wild Riemann surfaces, underlying the braiding of Stokes data and generalising the usual mapping class groups. We will establish a general product decomposition for the local wild mapping class groups, and in many cases define a fission tree controlling this decomposition. Further in type A we will show one obtains cabled versions of braid groups, related to braid operads.

Polystability of Stokes representations and differential Galois groups

“…See e.g. [17,18,12] for some recent developments concerning the generalised braid groups that act on wild character varieties, from admissible deformations of more general wild Riemann surfaces.…”