The complex of pant decompositions of a surface
Geometric Topology
2007-10-27 v2
Abstract
We exhibit a set of edges (moves) and 2-cells (relations) making the complex of pant decompositions on a surface a simply connected complex. Our construction, unlike the previous ones, keeps the arguments concerning the structural transformations independent from those deriving from the action of the mapping class group. The moves and the relations turn out to be supported in subsurfaces with 3g-3+n=1,2 (where g is the genus and n is the number of boundary components), illustrating in this way the so called Grothendieck principle.
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@article{arxiv.0710.1483,
title = {The complex of pant decompositions of a surface},
author = {Silvia Benvenuti and Riccardo Piergallini},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0710.1483},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
Minor changes in the introduction