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We present a metric version of weak proper discontinuity (WPD) for pseudo-Anosov maps on surfaces. As an application, we show that there are plenty of quasi-morphisms on the homeomorphism group of a torus or a hyperbolic surface that are…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-06-27 Inhyeok Choi

Let $S_g$ be the closed surface of genus $g$, $\mathcal{L}$ be the infinite Jacob's ladder surface, and $\mathrm{Map}(S)$ denote the mapping class group of a surface $S$. Let $q_g:\mathcal{L}\to S_g$ be the regular infinite-sheeted cover…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-08-26 Nikita Agarwal , Rohan Suresh Mahure , Kashyap Rajeevsarathy

A divide on an orientable 2-orbifold gives rise to a fibration of the unit tangent bundle to the orbifold.We characterize the corresponding monodromies as exactly the products of a left-veering horizontal and a right-veering vertical…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2019-10-03 Pierre Dehornoy , Livio Liechti

We investigate the structure of the characteristic polynomial det(xI-T) of a transition matrix T that is associated to a train track representative of a pseudo-Anosov map [F] acting on a surface. As a result we obtain three new polynomial…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2012-04-20 Joan Birman , Peter Brinkmann , Keiko Kawamuro

We show that if a partially hyperbolic diffeomorphism of a Seifert manifold induces a map in the base which has a pseudo-Anosov component then it cannot be dynamically coherent. This extends work of Bonatti, Gogolev, Hammerlindl and Potrie…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2020-02-25 Thomas Barthelmé , Sergio Fenley , Steven Frankel , Rafael Potrie

In this expository paper, we provide an intuition and illustration-driven overview of two recent results that tie the dynamics of certain homeomorphisms of infinite-type surfaces, called end-periodic homeomorphisms, to the geometry of their…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-08-21 Marissa Loving

We study notions of persistent homotopy groups of compact metric spaces together with their stability properties in the Gromov-Hausdorff sense. We pay particular attention to the case of fundamental groups, for which we obtain a more…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2022-09-13 Facundo Mémoli , Ling Zhou

We give a complete description of the arboreal Galois representation of a certain postcritically finite cubic polynomial over a large class of number fields and for a large class of basepoints. This is the first such example that is not…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2017-12-22 Robert L. Benedetto , Xander Faber , Benjamin Hutz , Jamie Juul , Yu Yasufuku

We give a characterization of generic pseudo-Anosov mapping classes purely in terms of their expressions in the shear coordinates, thus giving an answer to a problem raised by Papadopoulos--Penner [PP93]. This characterization has a cluster…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2024-12-30 Tsukasa Ishibashi , Shunsuke Kano

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

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

In a non-compact setting, the notion of hyperbolicity, and the associated structure of stable and unstable manifolds (for unbounded orbits), is highly dependent on the choice of metric used to define it. We consider the simplest version of…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2015-05-20 Jorge Groisman , Zbigniew Nitecki

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 show that a pseudo-Anosov map on a boundary component of an irreducible 3-manifold has a power that partially extends to the interior if and only if its (un)stable lamination is a projective limit of meridians. The proof is through…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2014-02-26 Ian Biringer , Jesse Johnson , Yair Minsky

Starting from any pseudo-Anosov map $\varphi$ on a surface of genus $g \geqslant 2$, we construct explicitly a family of Derived from pseudo-Anosov maps $f$ by adapting the construction of Smale's Derived from Anosov maps on the two-torus.…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2022-12-05 Jérôme Carrand

In this text we (re)-tell the theory of pseudo-Anosov flows on 3-manifolds with the orbit space as the central character; via a streamlined framework called {\em Anosov-like group actions}. This brings a simplified and unified perspective,…

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

We give a complete characterization of the holonomies of strictly convex cusps and of round cusps in convex projective geometry. We build families of generalized cusps of non-maximal rank associated to each strictly convex or round cusp. We…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-12-02 Balthazar Fléchelles

We introduce the co-surface graph $\mathcal{CS}$ of a finitely generated free group $\mathbb{F}$ and use it to study the geometry of hyperbolic group extensions of $\mathbb{F}$. Among other things, we show that the Gromov boundary of the…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2017-05-04 Spencer Dowdall , Samuel J. Taylor

We extend Poincar\'e's theory of orientation-preserving homeomorphisms from the circle to circloids with decomposable boundary. As special cases, this includes both decomposable cofrontiers and decomposable cobasin boundaries. More…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2016-11-21 Tobias Jäger , Andres Koropecki

In this article we characterize monotone extensions of cw-expansive homeomorphisms of compact metric spaces. We study the topology of its quotient space in the case of a compact surface. These results are applied to prove that there are…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2019-11-06 Mauricio Achigar , Alfonso Artigue , José Vieitez