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.

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Algebraic & Geometric Topology
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2025-03-24
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https://doi.org/10.2140/agt.2025.25.563
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Geometric and Algebraic Topology
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Infinite-type loxodromic isometries of the relative arc graph

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Infinite-type loxodromic isometries of the relative arc graph

Priyam Patel, Carolyn Abbott, Nicholas Miller
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Abstract

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.

Algebraic & Geometric TopologyVol. 25(1)
University of Utah (US), Brandeis University (US), University of Oklahoma (US)
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