Pseudo-Anosov homeomorphisms not arising from branched covers
Geometric Topology
2017-11-28 v2
Abstract
In this paper we provide a negative answer to a question of Farb about the relation between the algebraic degree of the stretch factor of a pseudo-Anosov homeomorphism and the genus of the surface on which it is defined.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1711.06881,
title = {Pseudo-Anosov homeomorphisms not arising from branched covers},
author = {Christopher J Leininger and Alan W. Reid},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1711.06881},
year = {2017}
}
Comments
v2: Corrected minor errors