English

Covers of surfaces, Kleinian groups, and the curve complex

Geometric Topology 2022-08-08 v2

Abstract

We prove an effective version of a theorem relating curve complex distance to electric distance in hyperbolic 3-manifolds, up to errors that are polynomial in the complexity of the underlying surface. We use this to give an effective proof of a result regarding maps between curve complexes of surfaces induced by finite covers. As applications, we effectively relate the electric circumference of a fibered manifold to the curve complex translation length of its monodromy, and we give quantitative bounds on virtual specialness for cube complexes dual to curves on surfaces.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.1810.12953,
  title  = {Covers of surfaces, Kleinian groups, and the curve complex},
  author = {Tarik Aougab and Priyam Patel and Samuel J. Taylor},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1810.12953},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

Several edits including a streamlined proof of Lemma 5.2. Accepted for publication by the Journal of Topology