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Large Collections of Curves Pairwise Intersecting Exactly Once

Geometric Topology 2012-10-11 v1

Abstract

Let Ω=(ωj)jI\Omega=(\omega_{j})_{j\in I} be a collection of pairwise non-isotopic simple closed curves on the closed, orientable, genus gg surface SgS_{g}, such that ωi\omega_{i} and ωj\omega_{j} intersect exactly once for iji\neq j. It was recently demonstrated by Malestein, Rivin, and Theran that the cardinality of such a collection is no more than 2g+12g+1. In this paper, we show that for g3g\geq 3, there exists at least two such collections with this maximum size up to the action of the mapping class group, answering a question posed by Malestein, Rivin and Theran.

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@article{arxiv.1210.2797,
  title  = {Large Collections of Curves Pairwise Intersecting Exactly Once},
  author = {Tarik Aougab},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1210.2797},
  year   = {2012}
}