Volume entropy for minimal presentations of surface groups in all ranks

DOI10.1007/S10711-015-0103-7zbMATH Open1335.57003arXiv1407.1648OpenAlexW2106750053MaRDI QIDQ2634859FDOQ2634859

Lluís Alsedà, David Juher, Francesc Mañosas, Jérôme Los

Publication date: 10 February 2016

Published in: Geometriae Dedicata (Search for Journal in Brave)

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. ]

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1407.1648

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zbMATH Keywords

topological entropysurface groupvolume entropyBowen-Series Markov maps

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)

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