Cubical geometry in the polygonalisation complex

DOI10.1017/S0305004118000130MaRDI QIDQ5225806zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Mark C. Bell, Valentina Disarlo, Robert L. Tang

Publication date 29 July 2019

Published in Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1612.04466

zbMATH Keywords

arc graph of a surfacecube complexflip graphmapping class group of a surfacepolygonalisation of a surface

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General geometric structures on low-dimensional manifolds (57M50)

Abstract: We introduce the polygonalisation complex of a surface, a cube complex whose vertices correspond to polygonalisations. This is a geometric model for the mapping class group and it is motivated by works of Harer, Mosher and Penner. Using properties of the flip graph, we show that the midcubes in the polygonalisation complex can be extended to a family of embedded and separating hyperplanes, parametrised by the arcs in the surface. We study the crossing graph of these hyperplanes and prove that it is quasi-isometric to the arc complex. We use the crossing graph to prove that, generically, different surfaces have different polygonalisation complexes. The polygonalisation complex is not CAT(0), but we can characterise the vertices where Gromov's link condition fails. This gives a tool for proving that, generically, the automorphism group of the polygonalisation complex is the (extended) mapping class group of the surface.

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