Infinite-type loxodromic isometries of the relative arc graph
An infinite-type surface $Σ$ is of type $\mathcal{S}$ if it has an isolated puncture $p$ and admits shift maps. This includes all infinite-type surfaces with an isolated puncture outside of two sporadic classes. Given such a surface, we construct an infinite family of intrinsically infinite-type mapping classes that act loxodromically on the relative arc graph $\mathcal{A}(Σ, p)$. J. Bavard produced such an element for the plane minus a Cantor set, and our result gives the first examples of such mapping classes for all other surfaces of type $\mathcal{S}$. The elements we construct are the composition of three shift maps on $Σ$, and we give an alternate characterization of these elements as a composition of a pseudo-Anosov on a finite-type subsurface of $Σ$ and a standard shift map. We then explicitly find their limit points on the boundary of $\mathcal{A}(Σ,p)$ and their limiting geodesic laminations. Finally, we show that these infinite-type elements can be used to prove that Map$(Σ,p)$ has an infinite-dimensional space of quasimorphisms.
Authors
- Priyam Patel (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5836-5390)
- Carolyn Abbott (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5899-2661)
- Nicholas Miller (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0913-5011)
Institutions
- University of Utah (US)
- Brandeis University (US)
- University of Oklahoma (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Algebraic & Geometric Topology
- Published
- 2025-03-24
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.2140/agt.2025.25.563
- Citations
- 1
- Primary Topic
- Geometric and Algebraic Topology
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 4.09