Random Heegaard splittings

DOI10.1112/JTOPOL/JTQ031MaRDI QIDQ3066417zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Joseph Maher

Publication date 10 January 2011

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0809.4881

zbMATH Keywords

coarse geometrycurve complexHeegaard splittingmapping class grouppseudo-Anosovrandom walk

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geometric group theory (20F65) Dynamical systems involving homeomorphisms and diffeomorphisms of planes and surfaces (37E30) General geometric structures on low-dimensional manifolds (57M50) Sums of independent random variables; random walks (60G50)

Abstract: A random Heegaard splitting is a 3-manifold obtained by using a random walk of length n on the mapping class group as the gluing map between two handlebodies. We show that the joint distribution of random walks of length n and their inverses is asymptotically independent, and converges to the product of the harmonic and reflected harmonic measures defined by the random walk. We use this to show that the translation length on the curve complex of a random walk grows linearly in the length of the walk, and similarly, that distance in the curve complex between the disc sets of a random Heegaard splitting grows linearly in n. In particular, this implies that a random Heegaard splitting is hyperbolic with asymptotic probability one.

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