Filling of closed surfaces

DOI10.1142/S1793525318500309MaRDI QIDQ4645885zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Bidyut Sanki

Publication date 11 January 2019

Published in Journal of Topology and Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1503.04559

zbMATH Keywords

fat graphfillingmapping class groupminimal positionspinesystole

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Relations of low-dimensional topology with graph theory (57M15)

Abstract: Let $F_g$ denote a closed oriented surface of genus $g$. A set of simple closed curves is called a filling of $F_g$ if its complement is a disjoint union of discs. The mapping class group $extMod(F_g)$ of genus $g$ acts on the set of fillings of $F_g$. The union of the curves in a filling forms a graph on the surface which is a so-called decorated fat graph. It is a fact that two fillings of $F_g$ are in the same $extMod(F_g)$-orbit if and only if the corresponding fat graphs are isomorphic. We prove that any filling of $F_2$ whose complement is a single disc (i.e., a so-called minimal filling) has either three or four closed curves and in each of these two cases, there is a unique such filling up to the action of $extMod(F_2)$. We provide a constructive proof to show that the minimum number of discs in the complement of a filling pair of $F_2$ is two. Finally, given positive integers $g$ and $k$ with $(g,k)eq(2,1)$, we construct a filling pair of $F_g$ such that the complement is a union of $k$ topological discs.

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