Free subgroups of surface mapping class groups

DOI10.1090/S1088-4173-07-00156-7zbMATH Open1163.57010arXivmath/0605396MaRDI QIDQ3432096FDOQ3432096

Authors: James W. Anderson, Javier Aramayona, Kenneth J. Shackleton 

Publication date: 13 April 2007

Published in: Conformal Geometry and Dynamics of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We quantify the generation of free subgroups of surface mapping class groups by pseudo-Anosov mapping classes in terms of their translation distance and the distance between their axes. Our methods make reference to eichmuller space only.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0605396

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geometric group theory (20F65) Teichmüller theory for Riemann surfaces (30F60) Moduli of Riemann surfaces, Teichmüller theory (complex-analytic aspects in several variables) (32G15) General geometric structures on low-dimensional manifolds (57M50)

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