Decomposing Multitwists

Publication date 31 May 2021

Abstract: The Decomposition Problem in the class

L I P (m a t h b b S^{2})

is to decompose any bi-Lipschitz map

f : m a t h b b S^{2} o m a t h b b S^{2}

as a composition of finitely many maps of arbitrarily small isometric distortion. In this paper, we construct a decomposition for certain bi-Lipschitz maps which spiral around every point of a Cantor set

X

of Assouad dimension strictly smaller than one. These maps are constructed by considering a collection of Dehn twists on the Riemann surface

m a t h b b S^{2} s e t m i n u s X

. The decomposition is then obtained via a bi-Lipschitz path which simultaneously unwinds these Dehn twists. As part of our construction, we also show that

X s u b s e t m a t h b b S^{2}

is uniformly disconnected if and only if the Riemann surface

m a t h b b S^{2} s e t m i n u s X

has a pants decomposition whose cuffs have hyperbolic length uniformly bounded above, which may be of independent interest.

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