Constructing convex planes in the pants complex
Aramayona, Javier ; Parlier, Hugo ; Shackleton, Kenneth J.
Aramayona, Javier
Parlier, Hugo
Shackleton, Kenneth J.
Publication Date
2009-10-01
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Aramayona, Javier; Parlier, Hugo; Shackleton, Kenneth J. (2009). Constructing convex planes in the pants complex. Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society 137 (10), 3523-3531
Abstract
Our main theorem identifies a class of totally geodesic subgraphs of the 1-skeleton of the pants complex, referred to as the pants graph, each isomorphic to the product of two Farey graphs. We deduce the existence of many convex planes in the pants graph of any surface of complexity at least 3.
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American Mathematical Society (AMS)