Loxodromic elements in big mapping class groups via the Hooper-Thurston-Veech construction
Geometric Topology
2023-03-22 v1 Dynamical Systems
Abstract
Let be an infinite-type surface and . We show that the Thurston-Veech construction for pseudo-Anosov elements, adapted for infinite-type surfaces, produces infinitely many loxodromic elements for the action of on the loop graph that do not leave any finite-type subsurface invariant. Moreover, in the language of Bavard-Walker, Thurston-Veech's construction produces loxodromic elements of any weight. As a consequence of Bavard and Walker's work, any subgroup of containing two "Thurston-Veech loxodromics" of different weight has an infinite-dimensional space of non-trivial quasimorphisms.
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@article{arxiv.2003.00102,
title = {Loxodromic elements in big mapping class groups via the Hooper-Thurston-Veech construction},
author = {Israel Morales and Ferran Valdez},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2003.00102},
year = {2023}
}
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30 pages, 17 Figures