Curve complexes are rigid

DOI10.1215/00127094-1334004MaRDI QIDQ549087zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Kasra Rafi, Saul Schleimer

Publication date 6 July 2011

Published in Duke Mathematical Journal (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0710.3794

zbMATH Keywords

mapping class groupcomplex of curvesquasi-isometric embeddingmarking complexTeichmüller space

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geometric group theory (20F65) General geometric structures on low-dimensional manifolds (57M50)

Abstract: Any quasi-isometry of the complex of curves 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.

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