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Minimal pseudo-Anosov translation lengths on the complex of curves

Vaibhav Gadre and Chia-Yen Tsai

Geometry & Topology 15 (2011) 1297–1312
Abstract

We establish bounds on the minimal asymptotic pseudo-Anosov translation lengths on the complex of curves of orientable surfaces. In particular, for a closed surface with genus g 2, we show that there are positive constants a1 < a2 such that the minimal translation length is bounded below and above by a1g2 and a2g2.

Keywords
mapping class group, pseudo-Anosov map, complex of curves, Teichmüller
Mathematical Subject Classification 2010
Primary: 30F60, 32G15
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Publication
Received: 18 January 2011
Revised: 18 June 2011
Accepted: 21 June 2011
Published: 29 July 2011
Proposed: Joan Birman
Seconded: David Gabai, Walter Neumann
Authors
Vaibhav Gadre
Department of Mathematics
Harvard University
Cambridge MA 02138
USA
http://www.math.harvard.edu/~vaibhav
Chia-Yen Tsai
Department of Mathematics
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Urbana IL 61801
USA
http://www.math.uiuc.edu/~ctsai6