A positive proportion of elements of mapping class groups is pseudo-Anosov

DOI10.1112/BLMS.12148zbMATH Open1436.20076arXiv1703.05044OpenAlexW2603146823WikidataQ130048046 ScholiaQ130048046MaRDI QIDQ4572032FDOQ4572032

María Cumplido, Bert Wiest

Publication date: 4 July 2018

Published in: Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In the Cayley graph of the mapping class group of a closed surface, with respect to any generating set, we look at a ball of large radius centered on the identity vertex, and at the proportion among the vertices in this ball representing pseudo-Anosov elements. A well-known conjecture states that this proportion should tend to one as the radius tends to infinity. We prove that it stays bounded away from zero. We also prove similar results for a large class of subgroups of the mapping class group.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1703.05044

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geometric group theory (20F65) Topological methods in group theory (57M07) Group actions on manifolds and cell complexes in low dimensions (57M60) Probabilistic methods in group theory (20P05) Discontinuous groups of transformations (57S30)

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