A faithful linear-categorical action of the mapping class group of a surface with boundary
Peter S. Ozsváth
Princeton University, USADylan P. Thurston
Indiana University, Bloomington, USARobert Lipshitz
Columbia University, New York, USA

Abstract
We show that the action of the mapping class group on bordered Floer homology in the second to extremal spin-structure is faithful. This paper is designed partly as an introduction to the subject, and much of it should be readable without a background in Floer homology.
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Peter S. Ozsváth, Dylan P. Thurston, Robert Lipshitz, A faithful linear-categorical action of the mapping class group of a surface with boundary. J. Eur. Math. Soc. 15 (2013), no. 4, pp. 1279–1307
DOI 10.4171/JEMS/392