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Goldman bracket and length equivalent filling curves

Geometric Topology 2017-01-13 v4

Abstract

A pair of distinct free homotopy classes of closed curves in an orientable surface FF with negative Euler characteristic is said to be length equivalent if for any hyperbolic structure on FF, the length of the geodesic representative of one class is equal to the length of the geodesic representative of the other class. Suppose α\alpha and β\beta are two intersecting oriented closed curves on FF and PP and QQ are any two intersection points between them. If the two terms αPβ\langle\alpha *_P\beta\rangle and αQβ\langle\alpha*_Q\beta\rangle in [α,β][\langle\alpha\rangle,\langle\beta\rangle], the Goldman bracket between them, are the same, then we construct infinitely many pairs of length equivalent curves in F.F. These pairs correspond to the terms of the Goldman bracket between a power of α\alpha and β\beta. As a special case, our construction shows that given a self-intersecting geodesic α\alpha of FF and any self-intersection point PP of α\alpha, we get a sequence of such pairs. Furthermore if α\alpha is a filling curve then these pairs are also filling.

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@article{arxiv.1511.06563,
  title  = {Goldman bracket and length equivalent filling curves},
  author = {Arpan Kabiraj},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1511.06563},
  year   = {2017}
}

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11 pages, 6 figures

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