The extended Goldman bracket determines intersection numbers for surfaces and orbifolds

DOI10.2140/AGT.2016.16.2813zbMATH Open1420.57048arXiv1209.0634OpenAlexW3100983453MaRDI QIDQ341769FDOQ341769

Authors: Moira Chas, Siddhartha Gadgil 

Publication date: 17 November 2016

Published in: Algebraic \& Geometric Topology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In the mid eighties Goldman proved an embedded curve could be isotoped to not intersect a closed geodesic if and only if their Lie bracket (as defined in that work) vanished. Goldman asked for a topological proof and about extensions of the conclusion to curves with self-intersection. Turaev, in the late eighties, asked about characterizing simple closed curves algebraically, in terms of the same Lie structure. We show how the Goldman bracket answers these questions for all finite type surfaces. In fact we count self-intersection numbers and mutual intersection numbers for all finite type orientable orbifolds in terms of a new Lie bracket operation, extending Goldman's. The arguments are purely topological, or based on elementary ideas from hyperbolic geometry. These results are intended to be used to recognize hyperbolic and Seifert vertices and the gluing graph in the geometrization of three manifolds. The recognition is based on the structure of the String Topology bracket of three manifolds.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1209.0634

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zbMATH Keywords

surfaceshyperbolicorbifoldintersection number

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General geometric structures on low-dimensional manifolds (57M50) Lie (super)algebras associated with other structures (associative, Jordan, etc.) (17B60)

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