On translation lengths of Anosov maps on the curve graph of the torus

DOI10.1007/S10711-021-00622-1MaRDI QIDQ2230979zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Hyungryul Baik, Sanghoon Kwak, Hyunshik Shin, Chang Sub Kim

Publication date 29 September 2021

Published in Geometriae Dedicata (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.00472

zbMATH Keywords

curve graphFarey graphtranslation length

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Teichmüller theory for Riemann surfaces (30F60) Moduli of Riemann surfaces, Teichmüller theory (complex-analytic aspects in several variables) (32G15) Dynamical systems involving homeomorphisms and diffeomorphisms of planes and surfaces (37E30) 2-dimensional topology (including mapping class groups of surfaces, Teichmüller theory, curve complexes, etc.) (57K20)

Abstract: We show that an Anosov map has a geodesic axis on the curve graph of a torus. The direct corollary of our result is the stable translation length of an Anosov map on the curve graph is always a positive integer. As the proof is constructive, we also provide an algorithm to calculate the exact translation length for any given Anosov map. The application of our result is threefold: (a) to determine which word realizes the minimal translation length on the curve graph within a specific class of words, (b) to establish the effective bound on the ratio of translation lengths of an Anosov map on the curve graph to that on Teichm"uller space, and (c) to estimate the overall growth of the number of Anosov maps which have a sufficient number of Anosov maps with the same translation length.

Review text

The Farey graph is a graph whose vertices correspond to rational numbers, admitting an action of \(\mathrm{SL}_2(\mathbb{Z})\) via the fractional linear action on the reals. Geometric properties of matrices can often be characterised via this action. For example, matrices have trace \(>2\) (i.e. are Anosov) exactly if the translation length on the Farey graph is positive. The main result of this article is that every Anosov element of \(\mathrm{SL}_2(\mathbb{Z})\) has an invariant geodesic axis in the Farey graph, and therefore acts with integral, positive translation length. The proof is constructive, and allows to explicitly identify the axis and compute translations lengths. Interpreting the Farey graph as the curve graph of the punctured torus, this is a concrete version of a more general result of [\textit{B. H. Bowditch}, Invent. Math. 171, No. 2, 281--300 (2008; Zbl 1185.57011)]: every pseudo-Anosov mapping class has a power that leaves invariant a geodesic axis in the curve graph. Since translation lengths of pseudo-Anosovs are in general rational [\textit{E. Kin} and \textit{H. Shin}, Groups Geom. Dyn. 13, No. 3, 883--907 (2019; Zbl 1472.57018)], and not integral, that is the best general result one can hope for. As applications, the authors characterise the matrices realising the minimal possible translation length, compare the translation length on the Farey graph to that on the hyperbolic plane, and give estimates for the growth of the number of Anosov matrices which have the same translation length on the Farey graph.

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