Comparing Teichm\"uller and curve graph translation lengths
Abstract
A pseudo-Anosov mapping class acts on Teichm\"uller space as well as on the curve graph with so called north-south dynamics. We can measure a stable translation length and of the respective actions. Boissy and Lanneau compute the minimal Teichm\"uller translation length over all pseudo Anosovs in a fixed genus that lie in a hyperelliptic component of translation surfaces. In particular, this minimum is always greater than independently of the genus. Here, we show that the minimal stable curve graph translation length over the same family of pseudo-Anosovs behaves differently: Namely, for a genus surface this minimal translation length is of order To prove this result, we combine techniques that are used to find upper and lower bounds for the stable curve graph translation length with the Rauzy-Veech induction machinery. We proceed with showing that for a fixed genus there is a sequence of pseudo-Anosovs with for all As a corollary, we obtain that there are stable curve graph translation lengths with infinite multiplicity, i.e. there exists and infinitely many, non-conjugate pseudo-Anosovs with for all
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@article{arxiv.2501.16563,
title = {Comparing Teichm\"uller and curve graph translation lengths},
author = {Philipp Bader},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2501.16563},
year = {2025}
}