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Minimal dilatation in Penner's construction

Geometric Topology 2020-03-27 v2

Abstract

For all orientable closed surfaces, we determine the minimal dilatation among mapping classes arising from Penner's construction. We also discuss generalisations to surfaces with punctures.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.1602.07603,
  title  = {Minimal dilatation in Penner's construction},
  author = {Livio Liechti},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1602.07603},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

11 pages, 6 figures

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