Distances of Heegaard splittings

DOI10.2140/GT.2005.9.95MaRDI QIDQ2388840zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Saul Schleimer

Publication date 20 September 2005

Published in Geometry \& Topology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0306071, https://eudml.org/doc/125451, http://www.emis.de/journals/UW/gt/GTVol9/paper2.abs.html

zbMATH Keywords

curve complexGromov hyperbolicityHeegaard splitting

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Metric geometry (51F99) General geometric structures on low-dimensional manifolds (57M50) General low-dimensional topology (57M99)

Abstract: J Hempel [Topology, 2001] showed that the set of distances of the Heegaard splittings (S,V, h^n(V)) is unbounded, as long as the stable and unstable laminations of h avoid the closure of V in PML(S). Here h is a pseudo-Anosov homeomorphism of a surface S while V is the set of isotopy classes of simple closed curves in S bounding essential disks in a fixed handlebody. With the same hypothesis we show the distance of the splitting (S,V, h^n(V)) grows linearly with n, answering a question of A Casson. In addition we prove the converse of Hempel's theorem. Our method is to study the action of h on the curve complex associated to S. We rely heavily on the result, due to H Masur and Y Minsky [Invent. Math. 1999], that the curve complex is Gromov hyperbolic.

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