On the arc and curve complex of a surface

DOI10.1017/S0305004109990387zbMATH Open1194.57026arXiv0907.3317MaRDI QIDQ3559979FDOQ3559979

Authors: Mustafa Korkmaz, Athanase Papadopoulos 

Publication date: 17 May 2010

Published in: Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study the {it arc and curve} complex $AC(S)$ of an oriented connected surface $S$ of finite type with punctures. We show that if the surface is not a sphere with one, two or three punctures nor a torus with one puncture, then the simplicial automorphism group of $AC(S)$ coincides with the natural image of the extended mapping class group of $S$ in that group. We also show that for any vertex of $AC(S)$, the combinatorial structure of the link of that vertex characterizes the type of a curve or of an arc in $S$ that represents that vertex. We also give a proof of the fact if $S$ is not a sphere with at most three punctures, then the natural embedding of the curve complex of $S$ in $AC(S)$ is a quasi-isometry. The last result, at least under some slightly more restrictive conditions on $S$, was already known. As a corollary, $AC(S)$ is Gromov-hyperbolic.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0907.3317

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zbMATH Keywords

curve complex of a surfacearc complex of a surface

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Riemann surfaces (30F99) General low-dimensional topology (57M99)

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