Linear progress in the complex of curves

DOI10.1090/S0002-9947-10-04903-2MaRDI QIDQ3566703zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Joseph Maher

Publication date 8 June 2010

Published in Transactions of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0802.0467

zbMATH Keywords

complex of curvesmapping class groupMarkov chain on a grouporientable surface of finite type

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geometric group theory (20F65) Dynamical systems involving homeomorphisms and diffeomorphisms of planes and surfaces (37E30) Markov chains (discrete-time Markov processes on discrete state spaces) (60J10)

Abstract: We show that a random walk on the mapping class group of an orientable surface of finite type makes linear progress in the relative metric, which is quasi-isometric to the complex of curves.

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