Core Surfaces

DOI10.1007/S10711-022-00706-6MaRDI QIDQ6374292arXivFDO

Authors Michael Magee, Doron Puder

Publication date 2 August 2021

Published in arXiv

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/S10711-022-00706-6

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Fundamental groups and their automorphisms (group-theoretic aspects) (20F34) Geometric group theory (20F65) 2-dimensional topology (including mapping class groups of surfaces, Teichmüller theory, curve complexes, etc.) (57K20) Topological methods in group theory (57M07)

arXiv classification

math.GRmath.GT

Abstract: Let $Gamm{a}_g$ be the fundamental group of a closed connected orientable surface of genus $ggeq2$. We introduce a combinatorial structure of "core surfaces", that represent subgroups of $Gamm{a}_g$. These structures are (usually) 2-dimensional complexes, made up of vertices, labeled oriented edges, and $4g$-gons. They are compact whenever the corresponding subgroup is finitely generated. The theory of core surfaces that we initiate here is analogous to the influential and fruitful theory of Stallings core graphs for subgroups of free groups.

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