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On the ideal triangulation graph of a punctured surface

Geometric Topology 2009-10-13 v1

Abstract

We study the ideal triangulation graph T(S)T(S) of a punctured surface SS of finite type. We show that if SS is not the sphere with at most three punctures or the torus with one puncture, then the natural map from the extended mapping class group of SS into the simplicial automorphism group of T(S)T(S) is an isomorphism. We also show that under the same conditions on SS, the graph T(S)T(S) equipped with its natural simplicial metric is not Gromov hyperbolic. Thus, from the point of view of Gromov hyperbolicity, the situation of T(S)T(S) is different from that of the curve complex of SS.

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@article{arxiv.0910.2088,
  title  = {On the ideal triangulation graph of a punctured surface},
  author = {Mustafa Korkmaz and Athanase Papadopoulos},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0910.2088},
  year   = {2009}
}