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Spotted disk and sphere graphs

Geometric Topology 2023-07-25 v1

Abstract

The disk graph of a handlebody H of gneus g2g\geq 2 with m0m\geq 0 marked points on the boundary is the graph whose vertices are isotopy classes of disks disjoint from the marked points and where two vertices are connected by an edge of length one if they can be realized disjointly. We show that for m=2 the disk graph contains quasi-isometrically embedded copies of R2\mathbb{R}^2. Furthermore, the sphere graph of the doubled handlebody of genus g4g\geq 4 with two marked points contains for every n1n\geq 1 a quasi-isometrically embedded copy of Rn\mathbb{R}^n.

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@article{arxiv.2307.12331,
  title  = {Spotted disk and sphere graphs},
  author = {Ursula Hamenstädt},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2307.12331},
  year   = {2023}
}

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26 pages, 1 figure

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