Algebraic degrees of pseudo-Anosov stretch factors

DOI10.1007/S00039-017-0429-4MaRDI QIDQ1688816zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Balázs Strenner

Publication date 11 January 2018

Published in Geometric and Functional Analysis. GAFA (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1506.06412

zbMATH Keywords

algebraic degreepseudo-Anosov mapTeichmüller spaceVeech group

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Teichmüller theory for Riemann surfaces (30F60) General geometric structures on low-dimensional manifolds (57M50)

Abstract: The motivation for this paper is to justify a remark of Thurston that the algebraic degree of stretch factors of pseudo-Anosov maps on a surface $S$ can be as high as the dimension of the Teichm"uller space of $S$. In addition to proving this, we completely determine the set of possible algebraic degrees of pseudo-Anosov stretch factors on almost all finite type surfaces. As a corollary, we find the possible degrees of the number fields that arise as trace fields of Veech groups of flat surfaces homeomorphic to closed orientable surfaces. Our construction also gives an algorithm for finding a pseudo-Anosov map on a given surface whose stretch factor has a prescribed degree. One ingredient of the proofs is a novel asymptotic irreducibility criterion for polynomials.

Review text

The author justifies a remark by Thurston stating that the algebraic degree of stretch factors of pseudo-Anosov maps on a surface \(S\) can be as high as the dimension of the space of \(S\). In addition the author completely determines the set of possible algebraic degrees of pseudo-Anosov stretch factors on almost all finite-type surfaces. As a corollary, the author finds the possible degrees of the number fields that arise as trace fields of Veech groups of flat surfaces homeomorphic to closed orientable surfaces. The author's construction also gives an algorithm for finding a pseudo-Anosov map on a given surface whose stretch factor has a prescribed degree. An ingredient of the proof is a novel asymptotic irreducibility criterion for polynomials.

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