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We show that there is a collection of subgroups of the mapping class group of a surface such that the associated coset intersection complex is quasi-isometric and homotopy equivalent to the curve complex. Moreover, we prove that these two…
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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…
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We characterise when a set of simple closed curves in an orientable surface forms a bouquet, in terms of relations between the corresponding Dehn twists.
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One can define the notion of primitive length spectrum for a simple regular periodic graph via counting the orbits of closed reduced primitive cycles under an action of a discrete group of automorphisms. We prove that this primitive length…
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It is proved that the curve graph $C^1(\Sigma)$ of a surface $\Sigma_{g,n}$ has a local pathology that had not been identified as such: there are vertices $\alpha,\beta$ in $C^1(\Sigma)$ such that $\beta$ is a dead end of every geodesic…
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