A fake Schottky group in Mod(S)

2009/05/09 by Richard P. Kent, Richard P. Kent IV, Christopher J. Leininger +2
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paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.0905.1414

12 pages, 2 figures, to appear in the proceedings of the fourth Ahlfors-Bers Colloquium

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Abstract

We use the classical construction of Schottky groups in hyperbolic geometry to produce non-Schottky subgroups of the mapping class group.

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