On mapping class group quotients by powers of Dehn twists and their representations (Q2055085)

Summary: The aim of this chapter is to survey some known results about mapping class group quotients by powers of Dehn twists, related to their finite dimensional representations and to state some open questions. One can construct finite quotients of them, out of representations with Zariski dense images into semisimple Lie groups. We show that, in genus \(2\), the Fibonacci TQFT representation is actually a specialization of the Jones representation. Eventually, we explain a method of Long and Moody [\textit{D. D. Long}, Commun. Anal. Geom. 2, No. 2, 217--238 (1994; Zbl 0845.20028)] which provides large families of mapping class group representations. For the entire collection see [Zbl 1466.57001].