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We give the asymptotic growth of the number of (multi-)arcs of bounded length between boundary components on complete finite-area hyperbolic surfaces with boundary. Specifically, if $S$ has genus $g$, $n$ boundary components and $p$…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2020-12-01 Nick Bell

We describe unicorn paths in the arc graph and show that they form 1-slim triangles and are invariant under taking subpaths. We deduce that all arc graphs are 7-hyperbolic. Considering the same paths in the arc and curve graph, this also…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2013-01-24 Sebastian Hensel , Piotr Przytycki , Richard C. H. Webb

We study when the mapping class group of an infinite-type surface $S$ admits an action with unbounded orbits on a connected graph whose vertices are simple closed curves on $S$. We introduce a topological invariant for infinite-type…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2024-03-11 Matthew Gentry Durham , Federica Fanoni , Nicholas G. Vlamis

Let $\Sigma$ be a compact, orientable surface of genus $g$, and let $\Gamma$ be a relation on $\pi_0(\partial \Sigma)$ such that the prescribed arc graph $\mathcal{A}(\Sigma,\Gamma)$ is Gromov-hyperbolic and non-trivial. We show that…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-08-08 Michael C. Kopreski

We consider the infinite-dimensional hypercube graph. This graph is not connected and has isomorphic connected components. We describe the restrictions of its automorphisms to the connected components and the automorphism group of connected…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-06-16 Mark Pankov

Hensel-Przytycki-Webb proved that all curve graphs of orientable surfaces are 17-hyperbolic. In this paper, we show that curve graphs of non-orientable surfaces are 17-hyperbolic by applying Hensel-Przytycki-Webb's argument. We also show…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2017-04-10 Erika Kuno

We study mapping class group orbits of homotopy and isotopy classes of curves with self-intersections. We exhibit the asymptotics of the number of such orbits of curves with a bounded number of self-intersections, as the complexity of the…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2016-05-24 Patricia Cahn , Federica Fanoni , Bram Petri

Following the work of Rosendal and Mann and Rafi, we try to answer the following question: when is the mapping class group of an infinite-type surface quasi-isometric to a graph whose vertices are curves on that surface? With the assumption…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2022-08-08 Anschel Schaffer-Cohen

In this article, we are concerned with various aspects of arcs on surfaces. In the first part, we deal with topological aspects of arcs and their complements. We use this understanding, in the second part, to construct interesting actions…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2021-02-18 Federica Fanoni , Tyrone Ghaswala , Alan McLeay

Let $N$ be a connected finite type nonorientable surface with or without boundary components and punctures. We prove that the graph of nonseparating curves of $N$ is connected and Gromov hyperbolic with a constant which does not depend on…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2024-01-25 Erika Kuno

We consider various equivalence relations on the set of homotopy classes of curves on a hyperbolic surface based on topological, algebraic, and geometric structures. The purpose of this work is to determine the relationship between these…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Christopher J. Leininger

Initial steps in the study of inner expansion properties of infinite Cayley graphs and other infinite graphs, such as hyperbolic ones, are taken, in a flavor similar to the well-known Lipton-Tarjan square root separation result for planar…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2011-09-14 Itai Benjamini , Oded Schramm , Adam Timar

We study the chromatic number of the curve graph of a surface. We show that the chromatic number grows like k log k for the graph of separating curves on a surface of Euler characteristic -k. We also show that the graph of curves that…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2024-03-11 Jonah Gaster , Joshua Evan Greene , Nicholas G. Vlamis

The strip map is a natural map from the arc complex of a bordered hyperbolic surface $S$ to the vector space of infinitesimal deformations of $S$. We prove that the image of the strip map is a convex hypersurface when $S$ is a surface of…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2015-06-29 François Guéritaud

Consider a one-ended word-hyperbolic group. If it is the fundamental group of a graph of free groups with cyclic edge groups then either it is the fundamental group of a surface or it contains a finitely generated one-ended subgroup of…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2014-11-11 Henry Wilton

We introduce the extension graph of graph product of groups and study its geometry. This enables us to study properties of graph product by exploiting large scale geometry of its defining graph. In particular, we show that the extension…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2026-03-17 Koichi Oyakawa

A hyperbolic algebraic curve is a bounded subset of an algebraic set. We study the function theory and functional analytic aspects of these sets. We show that their function theory can be described by finite codimensional subalgebras of the…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Jim Agler , John E. McCarthy

This paper focuses on using the theory of bicorn curves in the context of closed surfaces to understand hyperbolic phenomena of the curve graphs of those surfaces. We prove that the curve graph of any closed surface is 15-hyperbolic with…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-12-12 Takuya Katayama , Erika Kuno

We give a combinatorial proof, using the hyperbolicity of the curve graphs, of the bounded geodesic image theorem of Masur and Minsky. Recently it has been shown that curve graphs are uniformly hyperbolic, thus a universal bound can be…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2013-01-29 Richard C. H. Webb