Sieve methods in group theory. II: The mapping class group

DOI10.1007/S10711-011-9662-4MaRDI QIDQ438918zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Alexander Lubotzky, Chen Meiri

Publication date 31 July 2012

Published in Geometriae Dedicata (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1104.2450

zbMATH Keywords

mapping class grouppseudo-Anosov elementsrandom walkssieve methods

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of sieve methods (11N36) Asymptotic properties of groups (20F69) Group actions on manifolds and cell complexes in low dimensions (57M60)

Abstract: We prove that the set of non-pseudo-Anosov elements in the Torelli group is exponentially small.

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