C¹ actions of the mapping class group on the circle

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Let S be a connected orientable surface with finitely many punctures, finitely many boundary components, and genus at least 6. Then any C¹ action of the mapping class group of S on the circle is trivial. The techniques used in the proof of this result permit us to show that products of Kazhdan groups and certain lattices cannot have C¹ faithful actions on the circle. We also prove that for n > 5, any C¹ action of Aut(Fₙ) or Out(Fₙ) on the circle factors through an action of Z/2Z.