Products of Farey graphs are totally geodesic in the pants graph

被引:2
作者
Taylor, Samuel J. [1 ]
Zupan, Alexander [2 ]
机构
[1] Yale Univ, Dept Math, 20 Hillhouse Ave, New Haven, CT 06520 USA
[2] Univ Texas Austin, Dept Math, 1 Univ Stn C1200, Austin, TX 78712 USA
基金
美国国家科学基金会;
关键词
Pants graph; totally geodesic; mapping class group; TEICHMULLER SPACE; COMPLEX; VOLUMES; RANK;
D O I
10.1142/S1793525316500096
中图分类号
O1 [数学];
学科分类号
0701 ; 070101 ;
摘要
We show that for a surface Sigma, the subgraph of the pants graph determined by fixing a collection of curves that cut Sigma into pairs of pants, once-punctured tori, and four-times-punctured spheres is totally geodesic. The main theorem resolves a special case of a conjecture made in [2] and has the implication that an embedded product of Farey graphs in any pants graph is totally geodesic. In addition, we show that a pants graph contains a convex n-flat if and only if it contains an n-quasi-flat.
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页码:287 / 311
页数:25
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