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We study (topological) pseudo-Anosov flows from the perspective of the associated group actions on their orbit spaces and boundary at infinity. We extend the definition of Anosov-like action from [BFM22] from the transitive to the general…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2026-02-16 Thomas Barthelmé , Christian Bonatti , Kathryn Mann

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

We characterize those 1-ended word hyperbolic groups whose Gromov boundaries are homeomorphic to trees of graphs (i.e. to inverse limits of graphs that have particularly simple finitary descriptions). These are groups with the simplest…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2025-04-29 Nima Hoda , Jacek Świątkowski

This paper is a survey of some of the most elementary consequences of the JSJ-decomposition and geometrization for knot and link complements in the 3-sphere. Formulated in the language of graphs, the result is the construction of a…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-10-29 Ryan Budney

We consider the class of partially hyperbolic diffeomorphisms on a closed 3-manifold with quasi-isometric center. Under the non-wandering condition, we prove that the diffeomorphisms are accessible if there is no $su$-torus. As a…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2024-11-19 Ziqiang Feng

We show that finitely-generated, purely pseudo-Anosov subgroups of the genus-2 Goeritz group are convex cocompact in the genus-2 mapping class group.

Group Theory · Mathematics 2021-09-16 Bena Tshishiku

A pseudo-Anosov homeomorphism of a surface is a canonical representative of its mapping class. In this paper, we explain that a transitive pseudo-Anosov flow is similarly a canonical representative of its stable Hamiltonian class. It…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2024-10-04 Jonathan Zung

The mapping class group of a Heegaard splitting is the group of connected components in the set of automorphisms of the ambient manifold that map the Heegaard surface onto itself. For the genus three Heegaard splitting of the 3-torus, we…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-08-21 Jesse Johnson

Despite its homotopical stability, new relevant dynamics appear in the isotopy class of a pseudo-Anosov homeomorphism. We study these new dynamics by identifying homotopically equivalent orbits, obtaining a more complete description of the…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Federico Rodriguez Hertz , Jana Rodriguez Hertz , Raul Ures

This paper gives a complete classification of the possible ergodic decompositions for certain open families of volume-preserving partially hyperbolic diffeomorphisms. These families include systems with compact center leaves and…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2021-03-10 Andy Hammerlindl

In this article, we construct partial periodic quotients of groups which have a non-elementary acylindrical action on a hyperbolic space. In particular, we provide infinite quotients of mapping class groups where a fixed power of every…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2018-08-24 Rémi Coulon

We introduce bridge trisections of knotted surfaces in the four-sphere. This description is inspired by the work of Gay and Kirby on trisections of four-manifolds and extends the classical concept of bridge splittings of links in the…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2017-08-10 Jeffrey Meier , Alexander Zupan

In the present paper we consider class $G$ of orientation preserving Morse-Smale diffeomorphisms $f$, which defined on closed 3-manifold $M^3$, and whose non-wandering set consist of four fixed points with pairwise different Morse indices.…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2023-06-06 O. Pochinka , E. Talanova

This paper begins the classification of all edge-primitive 3-arc-transitive graphs by classifying all such graphs where the automorphism group is an almost simple group with socle an alternating or sporadic group, and all such graphs where…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-06-22 Michael Giudici , Carlisle S. H. King

In this paper we study isotopy classes of closed connected orientable surfaces in the standard $3$-sphere. Such a surface splits the $3$-sphere into two compact connected submanifolds, and by using their Heegaard splittings, we obtain a…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2022-03-02 Hiroaki Kurihara

The present paper is devoted to a study of orientation-preserving homeomorphisms on three-dimensional manifolds with a non-wandering set consisting of a finite number of surface attractors and repellers. The main results of the paper relate…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2023-12-20 Vyacheslav Grines , Olga Pochinka , Ekaterina Chilina

The Powell Conjecture offers a finite generating set for the genus $g$ Goeritz group, the group of automorphisms of $S^3$ that preserve a genus $g$ Heegaard surface $\Sigma_g$, generalizing a classical result of Goeritz in the case $g=2$.…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2019-08-07 Alexander Zupan

We prove that the mapping class groups of the genus 3 Heegaard splittings of the connected sum of two lens spaces are finitely generated, and the corresponding reducing sphere complexes are all connected.

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-08-27 Hao Chen , YanQing Zou

We prove that every smoothly embedded surface in a 4--manifold can be isotoped to be in bridge position with respect to a given trisection of the ambient 4--manifold; that is, after isotopy, the surface meets components of the trisection in…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2022-10-19 Jeffrey Meier , Alexander Zupan

We introduce and study bridge decompositions for 3-manifolds embedded in the 5-sphere. These generalize both the classical notion of bridge position for knots in the 3-sphere and the bridge trisections of surfaces in the 4-sphere due to…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2026-04-15 Román Aranda , Sarah Blackwell , Geunyoung Kim , Patrick Naylor , Puttipong Pongtanapaisan