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On the asymptotic dimension of the curve complex

Geometric Topology 2019-10-23 v2 Group Theory

Abstract

We give a bound, linear in the complexity of the surface, on the asymptotic dimension of the curve complex as well as the capacity dimension of the ending lamination space.

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@article{arxiv.1508.04832,
  title  = {On the asymptotic dimension of the curve complex},
  author = {Mladen Bestvina and Ken Bromberg},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1508.04832},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

The main change in this version is that in a number of the lemmas on train tracks the tracks are no longer assumed to be recurrent. This led to a significant revision of section 3 of the paper. To appear in Geometry and Topology