Free subgroups of surface mapping class groups

DOI10.1090/S1088-4173-07-00156-7MaRDI QIDQ3432096zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors James W. Anderson, Javier Aramayona, Kenneth J. Shackleton

Publication date 13 April 2007

Published in Conformal Geometry and Dynamics of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0605396

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geometric group theory (20F65) Teichmüller theory for Riemann surfaces (30F60) Moduli of Riemann surfaces, Teichmüller theory (complex-analytic aspects in several variables) (32G15) General geometric structures on low-dimensional manifolds (57M50)

Abstract: We quantify the generation of free subgroups of surface mapping class groups by pseudo-Anosov mapping classes in terms of their translation distance and the distance between their axes. Our methods make reference to eichmuller space only.

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