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Our main theorem asserts that every Farey graph embedded in the 1-skeleton of the pants complex of any finite type surface is totally geodesic.

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Javier Aramayona , Hugo Parlier , Kenneth J. Shackleton

We show that for a surface S, the subgraph of the pants graph determined by fixing a collection of curves that cut S into pairs of pants, once-punctured tori, and four-times-punctured spheres is totally geodesic. The main theorem resolves a…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2014-06-13 Samuel J. Taylor , Alexander Zupan

This note is about the geometry of the pants graph P(S), a natural simplicial graph associated to a finite type topological surface S where vertices represents pants decompositions. The main result in this note ascserts that for a…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2013-06-14 José L. Estévez

We prove a number of convexity results for strata of the diagonal pants graph of a surface, in analogy with the extrinsic geometric properties of strata in the Weil-Petersson completion. As a consequence, we exhibit convex flat subgraphs of…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2011-11-07 Javier Aramayona , Cyril Lecuire , Hugo Parlier , Kenneth J. Shackleton

We consider collections of disjoint simple closed curves in a compact orientable surface which decompose the surface into pairs of pants. The isotopy classes of such curve systems form the vertices of a 2-complex, whose edges correspond to…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Allen Hatcher

We prove that a Cayley graph can be embedded in the euclidean plane without accumulation points of vertices if and only if it is the 1-skeleton of a Cayley complex that can be embedded in the plane after removing redundant simplices. We…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2015-03-17 Agelos Georgakopoulos

We show that the automorphism group of the complex of pants decompositions for a surface is isomorphic to the mapping class group for that surface.

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Dan Margalit

We study jet schemes of Newton non-degenerate plane curve singularities. We identify a subgraph of the graph of jet components and show that it can be constructed from walks on the lattice points in the first quadrant of the Cartesian…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-10-29 Ghadi Abdallah , Maximiliano Leyton-Álvarez , Bassam Mourad , Hussein Mourtada

We introduce the concept of a pants decomposition for a finitely generated free group and construct the corresponding pants graph. A pants decomposition of a free group leads to the formation of a simplicial graph, referred to as the pants…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2026-04-20 Donggyun Seo

We investigate the structure of the tri-pants graph, a simplicial graph introduced by Maloni and Palesi, whose vertices correspond to particular collections of homotopy classes of simple closed curves of the twice-punctured torus, called…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2021-11-16 Katherine Betts , Troy Larsen , Jeffrey Utley , Avalon Vanis

It is well-known that a Riemann surface can be decomposed into the so-called pairs-of-pants. Each pair-of-pants is diffeomorphic to a Riemann sphere minus 3 points. We show that a smooth complex projective hypersurface of arbitrary…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Grigory Mikhalkin

The aim of this work is to prove that the connected parts of Farey complex structure in plane are triangles or quadrangles. To do this work we go back to plane convex polygones with oriented edge for wich we prove that if two consecutive…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2013-12-30 Abou-Jaoude Saab

We prove that, except in certain low-complexity cases, the automorphism group of the graph of pants decompositions of a nonorientable surface is isomorphic to the mapping class group of that surface.

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-07-18 Michał Stukow , Błażej Szepietowski

We introduce and study embeddings of graphs in finite projective planes, and present related results for some families of graphs including complete graphs and complete bipartite graphs. We also make connections between embeddings of graphs…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-10-02 Keith Mellinger , Ryan Vaughn , Oscar Vega

Using suitable convex functions, we construct a new family of flat Minkowski planes whose automorphism groups are at least $3$-dimensional. These planes admit groups of automorphisms isomorphic to the direct product of $\mathbb{R}$ and the…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2026-03-17 Duy Ho

We exhibit a set of edges (moves) and 2-cells (relations) making the complex of pant decompositions on a surface a simply connected complex. Our construction, unlike the previous ones, keeps the arguments concerning the structural…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-10-27 Silvia Benvenuti , Riccardo Piergallini

In this paper we show that every sufficiently large family of convex bodies in the plane has a large subfamily in convex position provided that the number of common tangents of each pair of bodies is bounded and every subfamily of size five…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2014-04-10 Michael G. Dobbins , Andreas F. Holmsen , Alfredo Hubard

The authors prove that for a closed surface of genus at least 3, the graph of pants decompositions has only one end.

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Howard Masur , Saul Schleimer

We study the topological types of pants decompositions of a surface by associating to any pants decomposition $P,$ in a natural way its pants decomposition graph, $\Gamma(P).$ This perspective provides a convenient way to analyze the…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2012-03-07 Harold Mark Sultan

We study the pants complex of surfaces of infinite type. When $S$ is a surface of infinite type, the usual definition of the pants graph $\mathcal{P}(S)$ yields a graph with infinitely many connected-components. In the first part of our…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2021-04-19 B. Branman
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