Curve complexes are rigid
The curve complex of a surface was introduced into the study of Teichmüller space by \textit{W. J. Harvey} [Riemann surfaces and related topics: Proc. 1978 Stony Brook Conf., Ann. Math. Stud. 97, 245--251 (1981; Zbl 0461.30036)] as an analogue of the Tits building of a symmetric space. The present paper deals with geometric structure of the curve complex (see \textit{H. A. Masur} and \textit{Y. N. Minsky} [Invent. Math. 138, No.~1, 103--149 (1999; Zbl 0941.32012) and Geom. Funct. Anal. 10, No.~4, 902--974 (2000; Zbl 0972.32011)]) of an orientable connected compact surface \(S\), in case the complexity \(\xi(S)\) of \(S\) is greater or equal to two, where \(\xi(S)=3g-3+b\), \(g\) (resp. \(b\)) being the genus (resp. the number of boundary components) of \(S\). By making use of the notions of cobounded ending lamination and of marking complex, together with some key results due to \textit{D. Gabai} [Geom. Topol. 13, No.~2, 1017--1041 (2009; Zbl 1165.57015)] and to \textit{J. Behrstock, B. Kleiner, Y. Minsky} and \textit{L. Mosher} [Geometry and rigidity of mapping class groups, \url{arXiv:0801.2006}], the authors prove that any quasi-isometry of the curve complex is bounded distance from a simplicial automorphism. As a consequence, the quasi-isometry type of the curve complex determines the homeomorphism type of the surface.
- The moduli space of curves is rigid
- Almost filling laminations and the connectivity of ending lamination space
- Covers and the curve complex
- Large-scale rigidity properties of the mapping class groups
- Proper actions on finite products of quasi-trees
- Rigidity of the nonseparating and outer curve graph
- On the asymptotic dimension of the curve complex
- Characterizing covers via simple closed curves
- Hyperbolic graphs for free products, and the Gromov boundary of the graph of cyclic splittings
- Curve complexes versus Tits buildings: structures and applications
- The augmented marking complex of a surface
- On the coarse geometry of the complex domains
- On the topology of ending lamination space
- A note on the curve complex of the 3-holed projective plane
- Large-scale geometry of the saddle connection graph
- Geometric approaches to braid groups and mapping class groups
- Arc and curve graphs for infinite-type surfaces
- Separating curve complex of the genus two surface: quasi-distance formula and hyperbolicity.
- The geometry of the curve graph of a right-angled Artin group.
- Rigidity of the saddle connection complex
- Automorphisms of the \(k\)-curve graph
- Dehn quandles of groups and orientable surfaces
- Quotients of the curve complex
- Spheres in the curve graph and linear connectivity of the Gromov boundary
- Automorphisms of some variants of fine graphs
- The curve complex and covers via hyperbolic 3-manifolds
- Connectivity of the space of ending laminations
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