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Towards Ivanov's meta-conjecture for geodesic currents

Geometric Topology 2025-02-20 v3

Abstract

Given a closed, orientable surface SS of negative Euler characteristic, we study two automorphism groups: Aut(C)Aut(\mathscr{C}) and Aut(ML)Aut(\mathcal{ML}), groups of homeomorphisms that preserve the intersection form in the space C\mathscr{C} of geodesic currents and the space ML\mathcal{ML} of measured laminations. We prove that except in a few special cases, Aut(ML)Aut(\mathcal{ML}) is isomorphic to the extended mapping class group. This theorem is a special case of \textit{Ivanov's meta-conjecture}. We investigate this question for Aut(C)Aut(\mathscr{C}). To demonstrate the difficulty in proving Ivanov's conjecture for Aut(C)Aut(\mathscr{C}), we construct infinite family of pairs of closed curves that have the simple same marked length spectra and self intersection number.

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@article{arxiv.2309.14532,
  title  = {Towards Ivanov's meta-conjecture for geodesic currents},
  author = {Meenakshy Jyothis},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2309.14532},
  year   = {2025}
}
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