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Linearly Bounded Conjugator Property for Mapping Class Groups

Geometric Topology 2012-11-06 v3 Group Theory

Abstract

Given two conjugate mapping classes f and g, we produce a conjugating element w such that |w| < K(|f|+|g|), where |.| denotes the word metric with respect to a fixed generating set, and K is a constant depending only on the generating set. As a consequence, the conjugacy problem for mapping class groups is exponentially bounded.

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@article{arxiv.1106.2341,
  title  = {Linearly Bounded Conjugator Property for Mapping Class Groups},
  author = {Jing Tao},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1106.2341},
  year   = {2012}
}

Comments

43 pages, 3 figures. Referee's comments incorporated. To appear in GAFA

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