Super efficiency of efficient geodesics in the complex of curves

Publication date 21 August 2020

Vector bundles on surfaces and higher-dimensional varieties, and their moduli (14J60) Other groups related to topology or analysis (20F38) Group actions on manifolds and cell complexes in low dimensions (57M60)

Abstract: We show that efficient geodesics have the strong property of "super efficiency". For any two vertices,

v, w i n m a t h c a l C (S_{g})

, in the complex of curves of a closed oriented surface of genus

g g e q 2

, and any efficient geodesic,

v = v_{1}, c d o t s, v_{e x t d} = w

, it was previously established by Birman, Margalit and the second author (see arXiv:1408.4133) that there is an explicitly computable list of at most

{e x t d}^{(6 g - 6)}

candidates for the

v_{1}

vertex. In this note we establish a bound for this computable list that is independent of

e x t d

-distance and only dependent on genus -- the super efficiency property. The proof relies on a new intersection growth inequality between intersection number of curves and their distance in the complex of curves, together with a thorough analysis of the dot graph associated with the intersection sequence.

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