Conjugate words and intersections of geodesics in H^2

DOI10.1142/S1793525320500107MaRDI QIDQ4997973zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Rita Gitik

Publication date 1 July 2021

Published in Journal of Topology and Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.04018

zbMATH Keywords

treehyperbolic geometrygeodesicfree groupconjugate words

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Free nonabelian groups (20E05) Conjugacy classes for groups (20E45) Geodesics in global differential geometry (53C22) Conformal metrics (hyperbolic, Poincaré, distance functions) (30F45)

Abstract: We investigate intersections of geodesic lines in $H^2$ and in an associated tree T, proving the following result. Let M be a punctured hyperbolic torus and let $gamma$ be a closed geodesic in M. Any edge of any triangle formed by distinct geodesic lines in the preimage of $gamma$ in $H^2$ is shorter then $gamma$. However, a similar result does not hold in the tree T. Let W be a reduced and cyclically reduced word in $p{i}_1(M)=<x,y>$. We construct several examples of triangles in T formed by distinct axes in T stabilized by conjugates of W such that an edge in those triangles is longer than L(W). We also prove that if W overlaps two of its conjugates in such a way that the overlaps cover all of W and the overlaps do not intersect, then there exists a decomposition $W=B{C}^{k}I;k>0$, with B a terminal subword of C and I an initial subword of C.

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