On the arc and curve complex of a surface

DOI10.1017/S0305004109990387MaRDI QIDQ3559979zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Mustafa Korkmaz, Athanase Papadopoulos

Publication date 17 May 2010

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

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

zbMATH Keywords

curve complex of a surfacearc complex of a surface

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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.

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