Distance in the curve graph

DOI10.1007/S10711-012-9820-3MaRDI QIDQ2439338zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Ursula Hamenstädt

Publication date 14 March 2014

Published in Geometriae Dedicata (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1104.4001

zbMATH Keywords

curve graphsurface with puncturesTeichmüller geodesic

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Teichmüller theory for Riemann surfaces (30F60) Geodesics in global differential geometry (53C22)

Abstract: We estimate the distance in the curve graph of a surface S of finite type using Teichmueller geodesics and assuming to be able to detect curves of distance at least three.

Review text

Let \(S\) be an oriented surface of genus \(g\geq 0\) with \(m\geq 0\) punctures satisfying \(3g-3+m\geq 2\). The curve graph of \(S\) is the geodesic metric graph whose vertices are isotopy classes of essential simple closed curves on \(S\) and where two vertices are connected by an edge of length one if and only if curves corresponding to the vertices can be realized disjointly. In this paper, the author shows that the distance between two points in the curve graph can be estimated up to a fixed multiplicative constant by considering pairs of \(\delta\)-wide simple closed curves of distance at least three for the unit cotangent line of a Teichmüller geodesic.

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