Failure of the well-rounded retract for outer space and Teichmüller space

DOI10.1090/BPROC/202MaRDI QIDQ6181206zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Maxime Fortier Bourque

Publication date 2 January 2024

Published in Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society, Series B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.07893

zbMATH Keywords

outer spaceTeichmüller space

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Teichmüller theory for Riemann surfaces (30F60) Moduli of Riemann surfaces, Teichmüller theory (complex-analytic aspects in several variables) (32G15) 2-dimensional topology (including mapping class groups of surfaces, Teichmüller theory, curve complexes, etc.) (57K20)

Abstract: The well-rounded retract for $mathrm{SL}_n(mathbbZ)$ is defined as the set of flat tori of unit volume and dimension $n$ whose systoles generate a finite-index subgroup in homology. This set forms an equivariant spine of minimal dimension for the space of flat tori. For both the Outer space $X_n$ of metric graphs of rank $n$ and the Teichm"uller space $mathcal{T}_g$ of closed hyperbolic surfaces of genus $g$, we show that the literal analogue of the well-rounded retract does not contain an equivariant spine. We also prove that the set of graphs whose systoles fill (the analogue of a set proposed as a spine for $mathcal{T}_g$ by Thurston) is a spine for $X_n$ but that its dimension is larger than the virtual cohomological dimension of $mathrmOut(F_n)$ in general.

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