On roots of Dehn twists

DOI10.1216/RMJ-2014-44-3-987zbMATH Open1302.57056arXiv0911.5079MaRDI QIDQ457956FDOQ457956

Authors: Naoyuki Monden 

Publication date: 30 September 2014

Published in: Rocky Mountain Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Margalit and Schleimer constructed nontrivial roots of the Dehn twist about a nonseparating curve. We prove that the conjugacy classes of roots of the Dehn twist about a nonseparating curve correspond to the conjugacy classes of periodic maps with certain conditions. Futhermore, we give data set which determine the conjugacy class of a root. As a consequence, we can find the minimum degree and the maximum degree, and show that the degree must be odd. Also, we give Dehn twist expression of the root of degree 3.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0911.5079

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zbMATH Keywords

rootsDehn twistconjugacy invariants

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General low-dimensional topology (57M99)

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