Word length in surface groups with characteristic generating sets

DOI10.1090/S0002-9939-08-09443-4MaRDI QIDQ3508092zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Danny Calegari

Publication date 27 June 2008

Published in Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0704.3825

zbMATH Keywords

closed hyperbolic surfacesfundamental groupstranslation lengthword length

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Topological methods in group theory (57M07)

Abstract: A subset of a group is characteristic if it is invariant under every automorphism of the group. We study word length in fundamental groups of closed hyperbolic surfaces with respect to characteristic generating sets consisting of a finite union of orbits of the automorphism group, and show that the translation length of any element with nonzero crossing number is positive, and bounded below by a constant depending only (and explicitly) on a bound on the crossing numbers of generating elements. This answers a question of B. Farb.

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