Large collections of curves pairwise intersecting exactly once

DOI10.1007/S10711-013-9920-8MaRDI QIDQ464251zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Tarik Aougab

Publication date 17 October 2014

Published in Geometriae Dedicata (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1210.2797

zbMATH Keywords

combinatorial designssurface topology

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Planar graphs; geometric and topological aspects of graph theory (05C10) Relations of low-dimensional topology with graph theory (57M15) General low-dimensional topology (57M99)

Abstract: Let $Omega=(omeg{a}_j{)}_{jinI}$ be a collection of pairwise non-isotopic simple closed curves on the closed, orientable, genus $g$ surface $S_g$, such that $omeg{a}_i$ and $omeg{a}_j$ intersect exactly once for $ieqj$. It was recently demonstrated by Malestein, Rivin, and Theran that the cardinality of such a collection is no more than $2g+1$. In this paper, we show that for $ggeq3$, there exists at least two such collections with this maximum size up to the action of the mapping class group, answering a question posed by Malestein, Rivin and Theran.

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