Roots, symmetries and conjugacy of pseudo-Anosov mapping classes

MaRDI QIDQ6207093zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Jérôme Fehrenbach, Jérôme Los

Publication date 10 October 2007

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Symbolic dynamics (37B10) Uniformly hyperbolic systems (expanding, Anosov, Axiom A, etc.) (37D20) Dynamical systems involving homeomorphisms and diffeomorphisms of planes and surfaces (37E30)

Abstract: An algorithm is proposed that solves two decision problems for pseudo-Anosov elements in the mapping class group of a surface with at least one marked fixed point. The first problem is the root problem: decide if the element is a power and in this case compute the roots. The second problem is the symmetry problem: decide if the element commutes with a finite order element and in this case compute this element. The structure theorem on which this algorithm is based provides also a new solution to the conjugacy problem.

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