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Goeritz groups of bridge decompositions

Geometric Topology 2020-04-08 v1

Abstract

For a bridge decomposition of a link in the 33-sphere, we define the Goeritz group to be the group of isotopy classes of orientation-preserving homeomorphisms of the 33-sphere that preserve each of the bridge sphere and link setwise. After describing basic properties of this group, we discuss the asymptotic behavior of the minimal pseudo-Anosov entropies. This gives an application to the asymptotic behavior of the minimal entropies for the original Goeritz groups of Heegaard splittings of the 33-sphere and the real projective space.

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@article{arxiv.2004.03098,
  title  = {Goeritz groups of bridge decompositions},
  author = {Susumu Hirose and Daiki Iguchi and Eiko Kin and Yuya Koda},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2004.03098},
  year   = {2020}
}

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42 pages, 21 figures

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