Pseudo-Anosov homeomorphisms not arising from branched covers

2017/11/18 by Leininger, Christopher J, Reid, Alan W.
#FOS: Mathematics #Geometric Topology (math.GT)

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1711.06881

Abstract

In this paper we provide a negative answer to a question of Farb about the relation between the algebraic degree of the stretch factor of a pseudo-Anosov homeomorphism and the genus of the surface on which it is defined.

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