The diameter of the thick part of moduli space and simultaneous Whitehead moves

DOI10.1215/00127094-2323128MaRDI QIDQ2393592zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Kasra Rafi, Jing Tao

Publication date 8 August 2013

Published in Duke Mathematical Journal (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1108.4150, https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.dmj/1373546605, http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.755.9273

zbMATH Keywords

metric graphLipschitz metricpants decompositionsimultaneous Whitehead movethick part of moduli spaceTeichmüller metric

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Graph algorithms (graph-theoretic aspects) (05C85) Moduli of Riemann surfaces, Teichmüller theory (complex-analytic aspects in several variables) (32G15) Fundamental groups and their automorphisms (group-theoretic aspects) (20F34)

Abstract: Let S be a surface of genus g with p punctures with negative Euler characteristic. We study the diameter of the $epsilon$-thick part of moduli space of S equipped with the Teichm"uller or Thurston's Lipschitz metric. We show that the asymptotic behaviors in both metrics are of order $logfracg+pepsilon$. The same result also holds for the $epsilon$-thick part of the moduli space of metric graphs of rank n equipped with the Lipschitz metric. The proof involves a sorting algorithm that sorts an arbitrary labeled tree with n labels with simultaneous Whitehead moves, where the number of steps is of order log(n).

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