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Centroids and the Rapid Decay property in mapping class groups

Geometric Topology 2014-02-26 v3 Functional Analysis Group Theory

Abstract

We study a notion of a Lipschitz, permutation-invariant "centroid" for triples of points in mapping class groups MCG(S), which satisfies a certain polynomial growth bound. A consequence (via work of Drutu-Sapir or Chatterji-Ruane) is the Rapid Decay Property for MCG(S).

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@article{arxiv.0810.1969,
  title  = {Centroids and the Rapid Decay property in mapping class groups},
  author = {Jason A. Behrstock and Yair N. Minsky},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0810.1969},
  year   = {2014}
}

Comments

v3. Numerous typos fixed and some arguments elucidated

R2 v1 2026-06-21T11:29:39.027Z