On the ideal triangulation graph of a punctured surface

DOI10.5802/AIF.2725MaRDI QIDQ715148zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Mustafa Korkmaz, Athanase Papadopoulos

Publication date 2 November 2012

Published in Annales de l’institut Fourier (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0910.2088, http://edoc.mpg.de/646485

zbMATH Keywords

Gromov hyperbolicideal triangulation graphmapping class group

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Compact Riemann surfaces and uniformization (30F10) Moduli of Riemann surfaces, Teichmüller theory (complex-analytic aspects in several variables) (32G15)

Abstract: We study the ideal triangulation graph $T(S)$ of a punctured surface $S$ of finite type. We show that if $S$ is not the sphere with at most three punctures or the torus with one puncture, then the natural map from the extended mapping class group of $S$ into the simplicial automorphism group of $T(S)$ is an isomorphism. We also show that under the same conditions on $S$, the graph $T(S)$ equipped with its natural simplicial metric is not Gromov hyperbolic. Thus, from the point of view of Gromov hyperbolicity, the situation of $T(S)$ is different from that of the curve complex of $S$.

Review text

The authors define the ideal triangulation graph \(T(S)\) of a hyperbolic surface \(S\) by letting vertices be (isotopy classes of) ideal triangulations and placing edges between triangulations related by an elementary move (defined to be the operation of replacing an edge of the triangulation by another edge). The mapping class group \(\text{Mod}(S)\) acts on \(T(S)\), and thus induces an homomorphism \(\text{Mod}(S) \rightarrow \text{Aut}(T(S))\). They show that except for two low-complexity examples (punctured torus, thrice-punctured sphere, eliminating these examples is equivalent to the condition \(\chi(S) \leq -2\)), this map is an isomorphism. This is analogous to the situation for the curve complex or the arc complex. However, this graph is not Gromov hyperbolic, in contrast to the curve complex.

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