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Infima of length functions and dual cube complexes

Geometric Topology 2018-09-25 v2

Abstract

In the presence of certain topological conditions, we provide lower bounds for the infimum of the length function associated to a collection of curves on Teichm\"uller space that depend on the dual cube complex associated to the collection, a concept due to Sageev. As an application of our bounds, we obtain estimates for the `longest' curve with kk self-intersections, complementing work of Basmajian \cite{basmajian}.

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@article{arxiv.1505.07944,
  title  = {Infima of length functions and dual cube complexes},
  author = {Jonah Gaster},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1505.07944},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

15 pages, 6 figures, published version

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