Largest projections for random walks and shortest curves in random mapping tori

DOI10.4310/MRL.2019.V26.N1.A14zbMATH Open1453.20062arXiv1611.07545WikidataQ127750984 ScholiaQ127750984MaRDI QIDQ2001012FDOQ2001012

Authors: Alessandro Sisto, Samuel J. Taylor 

Publication date: 1 July 2019

Published in: Mathematical Research Letters (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We show that the largest subsurface projection distance between a marking and its image under the nth step of a random walk grows logarithmically in n, with probability approaching 1 as n tends to infinity. Our setup is general and also applies to (relatively) hyperbolic groups and to $mathrmOut(F_n)$. We then use this result to prove Rivin's conjecture that for a random walk $(w_n)$ on the mapping class group, the shortest geodesic in the hyperbolic mapping torus $M_{w_n}$ has length on the order of $1/lo{g}^2(n)$.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1611.07545

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Sums of independent random variables; random walks (60G50) Automorphism groups of groups (20F28) Hyperbolic groups and nonpositively curved groups (20F67) Probabilistic methods in group theory (20P05)

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