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Infinite-type loxodromic isometries of the relative arc graph

Geometric Topology 2025-04-02 v2

Abstract

An infinite-type surface Σ\Sigma is of type S\mathcal{S} if it has an isolated puncture pp and admits shift maps. This includes all infinite-type surfaces with an isolated puncture outside of two sporadic classes. Given such a surface, we construct an infinite family of intrinsically infinite-type mapping classes that act loxodromically on the relative arc graph A(Σ,p)\mathcal{A}(\Sigma, p). J. Bavard produced such an element for the plane minus a Cantor set, and our result gives the first examples of such mapping classes for all other surfaces of type S\mathcal{S}. The elements we construct are the composition of three shift maps on Σ\Sigma, and we give an alternate characterization of these elements as a composition of a pseudo-Anosov on a finite-type subsurface of Σ\Sigma and a standard shift map. We then explicitly find their limit points on the boundary of A(Σ,p)\mathcal{A}(\Sigma,p) and their limiting geodesic laminations. Finally, we show that these infinite-type elements can be used to prove that Map(Σ,p)(\Sigma,p) has an infinite-dimensional space of quasimorphisms.

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@article{arxiv.2109.06106,
  title  = {Infinite-type loxodromic isometries of the relative arc graph},
  author = {Carolyn R. Abbott and Nicholas Miller and Priyam Patel},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2109.06106},
  year   = {2025}
}

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v.2: Minor edits