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Positive factorizations of pseudoperiodic homeomorphisms

Geometric Topology 2020-10-27 v2

Abstract

We generalize a classical result concerning smooth germs of surfaces, by proving that monodromies on links of isolated complex surface singularities associated with reduced holomorphic map germs admit a positive factorization. As a consequence of this and a topological characterization of these monodromies by Anne Pichon, we conclude that a pseudoperiodic homeomorphism on an oriented surface with boundary with positive fractional Dehn twist coefficients and screw numbers, admits a positive factorization. We use the main theorem to give a sufficiency criterion for certain pseudoperiodic homeomorphisms with negative screw numbers to admit a positive factorization.

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@article{arxiv.2001.08309,
  title  = {Positive factorizations of pseudoperiodic homeomorphisms},
  author = {Pablo Portilla Cuadrado},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2001.08309},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

33 pages, 1 figure. Much more detailed first sections that in previous section. Same content as in journal accepted version

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