Filling with separating curves

arXiv2301.05840MaRDI QIDQ6508433FDOQ6508433

Authors: Bhola Nath Saha, Bidyut Sanki 

Abstract: A pair $$ of simple closed curves on a closed and orientable surface $S_g$ of genus $g$ is called a filling pair if the complement is a disjoint union of topological discs. If $alpha$ is separating, then we call it as separating filling pair. In this article, we find a necessary and sufficient condition for existence of a separating filling pair on $S_g$ with exactly two complementary discs. We study the combinatorics of the action of the mapping class group Mod$(S_g)$ on the set of such filling pairs. Furthermore, we construct a Morse function $mathcal{F}_g$ on the moduli space $mathcal{M}_g$ which, for a given hyperbolic space $X$, outputs the length of shortest such filling pair with respect to the metric in $X$. We show that the cardinality of the set of global minima of the function $mathcal{F}_g$ is same as the number of Mod$(S_g)$-orbits of such filling pair.

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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