Filling with separating curves

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Main Authors: Saha, Bhola Nath, Sanki, Bidyut
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Published: 2023
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author Saha, Bhola Nath
Sanki, Bidyut
author_facet Saha, Bhola Nath
Sanki, Bidyut
contents A pair $(α, β)$ of simple closed curves on a closed and orientable surface $S_g$ of genus $g$ is called a filling pair if the complement is a disjoint union of topological disks. If $α$ is separating, then we call it as separating filling pair. In this article, we find a necessary and sufficient condition for the existence of a separating filling pair on $S_g$ with exactly two complementary disks. We study the combinatorics of the action of the mapping class group $\M$ on the set of such filling pairs. Furthermore, we construct a Morse function $\mathcal{F}_g$ on the moduli space $\mathcal{M}_g$ which, for a given hyperbolic surface $X$, outputs the length of shortest such filling pair with respect to the metric in $X$. We show that the cardinality of the set of global minima of the function $\mathcal{F}_g$ is the same as the number of $\M$-orbits of such filling pairs.
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spellingShingle Filling with separating curves
Saha, Bhola Nath
Sanki, Bidyut
Geometric Topology
57M15, 05C10
A pair $(α, β)$ of simple closed curves on a closed and orientable surface $S_g$ of genus $g$ is called a filling pair if the complement is a disjoint union of topological disks. If $α$ is separating, then we call it as separating filling pair. In this article, we find a necessary and sufficient condition for the existence of a separating filling pair on $S_g$ with exactly two complementary disks. We study the combinatorics of the action of the mapping class group $\M$ on the set of such filling pairs. Furthermore, we construct a Morse function $\mathcal{F}_g$ on the moduli space $\mathcal{M}_g$ which, for a given hyperbolic surface $X$, outputs the length of shortest such filling pair with respect to the metric in $X$. We show that the cardinality of the set of global minima of the function $\mathcal{F}_g$ is the same as the number of $\M$-orbits of such filling pairs.
title Filling with separating curves
topic Geometric Topology
57M15, 05C10
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.05840