English

Filling loops at infinity in the mapping class group

Group Theory 2012-05-04 v2

Abstract

We study the Dehn function at infinity in the mapping class group, finding a polynomial upper bound of degree four. This is the same upper bound that holds for arbitrary right-angled Artin groups.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.1109.6048,
  title  = {Filling loops at infinity in the mapping class group},
  author = {Aaron Abrams and Noel Brady and Pallavi Dani and Moon Duchin and Robert Young},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1109.6048},
  year   = {2012}
}

Comments

7 pages, 2 figures; this note presents a result which was contained in an earlier version of "Pushing fillings in right-angled Artin groups" (arXiv:1004.4253) but is independent of the techniques in that paper

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