Totally geodesic subgraphs of the pants complex

DOI10.4310/MRL.2008.V15.N2.A9MaRDI QIDQ935874zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Javier Aramayona, Hugo Parlier, Kenneth J. Shackleton

Publication date 12 August 2008

Published in Mathematical Research Letters (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0608752

zbMATH Keywords

Farey graphPants complexWeil-Petersson metric

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Teichmüller theory for Riemann surfaces (30F60) Relations of low-dimensional topology with graph theory (57M15) General geometric structures on low-dimensional manifolds (57M50) Group actions on manifolds and cell complexes in low dimensions (57M60)

Abstract: Our main theorem asserts that every Farey graph embedded in the 1-skeleton of the pants complex of any finite type surface is totally geodesic.

Review text

Let \(S\) be a compact, connected and orientable surface, possibly with boundary, of genus \(g\) and \(| \partial S| \) boundary components. Since the work of \textit{A. E. Hatcher} and \textit{W. Thurston} [Topology 19, 221--237 (1980; Zbl 0447.57005)], to the surface \(S\) there is the associated pants graph \(\mathcal{P}(S).\) This is a simplicial graph, where the vertices are all the pants decompositions \(P\) of \(S\) and any two vertices are connected by an edge if they differ by an elementary move, namely, a move which consists in replacing a curve \(\alpha\) of \(P\) by another curve \(\beta\) intersecting \(\alpha\) minimally. The pants graph \(\mathcal{P}(S)\) is proved by \textit{J. F. Brock} [J. Am. Math. Soc. 16, 495--535 (2003; Zbl 1059.30036)] to be a combinatorial model for the completion of the Weil-Petersson metric on the Teichmüller space \(\text{Teich}(S)\) of \(S.\) In this article, the authors prove that every Farey graph \(\mathcal{F}\) which is embedded in the pants graph \(\mathcal{P}(S)\) is totally geodesic. This gives a complete analogy between the Farey subgraphs in the pants graph and the geometry of the corresponding strata lying in the completed Weil-Petersson space.

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