Volume entropy for minimal presentations of surface groups in all ranks

DOI10.1007/S10711-015-0103-7MaRDI QIDQ2634859zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Lluís Alsedà, David Juher, Jérôme Los, Francesc Mañosas

Publication date 10 February 2016

Published in Geometriae Dedicata (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1407.1648, http://hdl.handle.net/10256/11992

zbMATH Keywords

Bowen-Series Markov mapssurface grouptopological entropyvolume entropy

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Symbolic dynamics (37B10) Topological entropy (37B40) Dynamical systems involving maps of the circle (37E10) Fundamental group, presentations, free differential calculus (57M05) Topological methods in group theory (57M07)

Abstract: We study the volume entropy of a class of presentations (including the classical ones) for all surface groups, called emph{minimal geometric presentations}. We rediscover a formula first obtained by Cannon and Wagreich with the computation in a non published manuscript by Cannon. The result is surprising: an explicit polynomial of degree $n$, the rank of the group, encodes the volume entropy of all classical presentations of surface groups. The approach we use is completely different. It is based on a dynamical system construction following an idea due to Bowen and Series and extended to all geometric presentations in. The result is an explicit formula for the volume entropy of minimal presentations for all surface groups, showing a polynomial dependence in the rank $n>2$. We prove that for a surface group $G_n$ of rank $n$ with a classical presentation $P_n$ the volume entropy is $log(lambd{a}_n)$, where $lambd{a}_n$ is the unique real root larger than one of the polynomial [ x^{n} - 2(n - 1) sum_{j=1}^{n-1} x^{j} + 1. ]

Review text

Work of \textit{J. W. Cannon} and \textit{P. Wagreich} [Math. Ann. 293, No. 2, 239--258 (1992; Zbl 0734.57001)] shows that for the classical presentations of a surface group with rank \(n\geq3\), the denominator of the growth series is the explicit polynomial \(Q_n(x)=x^n-2(n-1)\sum_{j=1}^{n-1}x^j+1\). It follows in particular that this enigmatic polynomial encodes (in the form of its zeros, and in particular its unique real zero larger than \(1\)) the volume entropy of all such surface groups. Here ideas of \textit{R. Bowen} and \textit{C. Series} [Publ. Math., Inst. Hautes Étud. Sci. 50, 153--170 (1979; Zbl 0439.30033)] and their extension by the third author [J. Topol. 7, No. 1, 120--154 (2014; Zbl 1305.57001)] are used to give a dynamical approach resulting in the volume entropy being expressed as the topological entropy of an associated map which admits a finite Markov partition with enough control over its structure to recover the polynomial \(Q_n\) and hence give a new method to achieve the result of Cannon and Wagreich.

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