Computing Triangulations of Mapping Tori of Surface Homeomorphisms

DOI10.1080/10586458.2001.10504677zbMATH Open1004.57014arXivmath/0012001OpenAlexW2095378709MaRDI QIDQ3146572FDOQ3146572

Authors: Peter Brinkmann, Saul Schleimer 

Publication date: 12 September 2002

Published in: Experimental Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We present the mathematical background of a software package that computes triangulations of mapping tori of surface homeomorphisms, suitable for Jeff Weeks's program SnapPea. It consists of two programs. jmt computes triangulations and prints them in a human-readable format. jsnap converts this format into SnapPea's triangulation file format and may be of independent interest because it allows for quick and easy generation of input for SnapPea. As an application, we obtain a new solution to the restricted conjugacy problem in the mapping class group.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0012001

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zbMATH Keywords

conjugacy problemmapping class groupsurface automorphismpseudo-Anosov automorphism

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Software, source code, etc. for problems pertaining to manifolds and cell complexes (57-04) Dynamical systems involving homeomorphisms and diffeomorphisms of planes and surfaces (37E30) General geometric structures on low-dimensional manifolds (57M50) General low-dimensional topology (57M99)

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Uses Software

• SnapPea

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