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We construct the first known examples of nontrivial, normal, all pseudo-Anosov subgroups of mapping class groups of surfaces. Specifically, we construct such subgroups for the closed genus two surface and for the sphere with five or more…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2014-11-11 Kim Whittlesey

Given any generating set of any pseudo-Anosov-containing subgroup of the mapping class group of a surface, we construct a pseudo-Anosov with word length bounded by a constant depending only on the surface. More generally, in any subgroup G…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2010-08-16 Johanna Mangahas

We investigate the separability of several well known classes of subgroups of the mapping class group of a surface.

Group Theory · Mathematics 2009-01-26 Christopher J. Leininger , D. B. McReynolds

We construct explicit examples of geodesics in the mapping class group and show that the shadow of a geodesic in mapping class group to the curve graph does not have to be a quasi-geodesic. We also show that the quasi-axis of a…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2021-12-01 Kasra Rafi , Yvon Verberne

In this paper we prove that groups as in the title are convex cocompact in the mapping class group.

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2017-11-21 Mladen Bestvina , Kenneth Bromberg , Richard P. Kent , Christopher J. Leininger

We show that shadowing is a generic property among continuous maps and surjections on a large class of locally connected one-dimensional continua.

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2021-01-13 Jonathan Meddaugh

We quantify the generation of free subgroups of surface mapping class groups by pseudo-Anosov mapping classes in terms of their translation distance and the distance between their axes. Our methods make reference to \teichmuller space only.

Group Theory · Mathematics 2007-05-23 James W. Anderson , Javier Aramayona , Kenneth J. Shackleton

We introduce the notion of a pseudo-Anosov contact structure, which admits a type of singular contact form with pseudo-Anosov Reeb flow. We prove that contact homology detects the free homotopy classes of closed orbits of any pseudo-Anosov…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2026-01-06 Julian Chaidez , Yijie Pan

In this article, we continue the study of the action of subgroups of the mapping class group on the $SU(2)$-character variety. We prove the existence of a mapping class subgroup on the surface of genus $2$, containing infinitely many…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-05-14 Fayssal Saadi

Every pseudo-Anosov mapping class $\varphi$ defines an associated veering triangulation $\tau_\varphi$ of a punctured mapping torus. We show that generically, $\tau_\varphi$ is not geometric. Here, the word "generic" can be taken either…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2020-11-26 David Futer , Samuel J. Taylor , William Worden

We describe a circle of ideas relating the dynamics of 2-dimensional homeomorphisms to that of 1-dimensional endomorphisms. This is used to introduce a new class of maps generalizing that of Thurston's pseudo-Anosov homeomorphisms.

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Andre de Carvalho

Given two automorphisms of a group $G$, one is interested in knowing whether they are conjugate in the automorphism group of $G$, or in the abstract commensurator of $G$, and how these two properties may differ. When $G$ is the fundamental…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2025-06-09 François Dahmani , Mahan Mj

We compare three notions of genericity of separable metric structures. Our analysis provides a general model theoretic technique of showing that structures are generic in descriptive set theoretic (topological) sense and in measure…

Logic · Mathematics 2008-02-04 Alexander Usvyatsov

We show that the action on its orbit space induced by a pseudo-Anosov flow on a closed $3$-manifold (and more general Anosov-like actions) can be seen as an isometric action on a Gromov-hyperbolic space. When the flow is not $\R$-covered,…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2026-05-14 Thomas Barthelmé , Kathryn Mann , Neige Paulet , Abdul Zalloum

For a fixed marked surface $S$, we construct polynomial bounds on the periodic and preperiodic lengths of the maximal splitting sequences of a projectively invariant measured train track. We give two consequences of these bounds. Firstly,…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2016-05-03 Mark C. Bell

We give a cluster algebraic description of the reduction procedure of mapping classes along a multicurve. Based on this description, we characterize pseudo-Anosov mapping classes on a general marked surface in terms of a weaker version of…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2021-05-19 Tsukasa Ishibashi , Shunsuke Kano

We define a natural class of graphs by generalizing prior notions of visibility, allowing the representing regions and sightlines to be arbitrary. We consider mainly the case of compact connected representing regions, proving two results…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Mike Develin , Stephen Hartke , David Petrie Moulton

The aim of this note is to give the simplest possible proof that Mapping Class Groups of closed hyperbolic surfaces are acylindrically hyperbolic, and more specifically that their curve graphs are hyperbolic and that pseudo-Anosovs act on…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2015-02-10 Piotr Przytycki , Alessandro Sisto

This thesis provides a classification of generalized pseudo-Anosov homeomorphisms up to topological conjugacy using an algorithmic approach. A Markov partition of a generalized pseudo-Anosov homeomorphism is a decomposition of the surface…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2024-05-14 Inti Cruz Diaz

In our paper, we introduce special-generic-like maps or SGL maps as smooth maps and study their several algebraic topological and differential topological properties. The new class generalize the class of so-called special generic maps.…

General Topology · Mathematics 2023-02-14 Naoki Kitazawa