Spotted disk and sphere graphs. I

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Authors Ursula Hamenstädt

Publication date 16 August 2021

Published in The New York Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.05663, http://nyjm.albany.edu/j/2021/27-34.html

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zbMATH Keywords

disk graphsembedded flatshandlebodies with spotssphere graphs

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Topological methods in group theory (57M07) General low-dimensional topology (57M99)

Abstract: The disk graph of a handlebody H of genus g at least 2 with m marked points on the boundary is the graph whose vertices are isotopy classes of disks disjoint from the marked points and where two vertices are connected by an edge if they can be realized disjointly. We show that for m=1 the disk graph contains quasi-isometrically embedded copies of R^2. The same holds true for the sphere graph of the double handlebody with one marked point provided that g is even.

Review text

In Theorem 2, the author gives the interesting result that the disk complex of the once-spotted handlebody contains a quasi-flat (quasi-isometrically embedded euclidean space) of dimension two. This is in marked contrast to previous work of the author [Groups Geom. Dyn. 10, No. 1, 365--405 (2016; Zbl 1332.05045); J. Topol. 12, No. 2, 658--673 (2019; Zbl 1423.57038)] as well as of \textit{H. Masur} and \textit{S. Schleimer} [J. Am. Math. Soc. 26, No. 1, 1--62 (2013; Zbl 1272.57015)] on ``spotless handlebodies; there the disk complex is Gromov hyperbolic. This suggests that the disk complex of a spotted handlebody (and similarly the sphere complex of the double of a spotted handlebody) is more subtle, and requires more careful treatment, than the curve complex of a surface. In particular, in Remark 2.7, the author points out that we do not yet know if the disk complex of a once-spotted handlebody contains quasi-flats of dimension greater than two.

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