Dynamics of Convex Cocompact Subgroups of Mapping Class Groups

Abstract: For a convex cocompact subgroup

G < M o d (S)

, and points

x, y i n T e i c h (S)

we obtain asymptotic formulas as

R o i n f t y

of

| B_{R} (x) c a p G y |

as well as the number of conjugacy classes of pseudo-Anosov elements in

G

of dilatation at most

R

. We do this by developing an analogue of Patterson-Sullivan theory for the action of

G

on

P M F

.

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