Free subgroups of surface mapping class groups

Anderson, James; Aramayona, Javier; Shackleton, Kenneth

doi:10.1090/S1088-4173-07-00156-7

Free subgroups of surface mapping class groups
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by James W. Anderson, Javier Aramayona and Kenneth J. Shackleton

Conform. Geom. Dyn. 11 (2007), 44-55

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S1088-4173-07-00156-7

Published electronically: March 15, 2007

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Corrigendum: Conform. Geom. Dyn. 13 (2009), 136-138.

Abstract:

We quantify the generation of free subgroups of surface mapping class groups by pseudo-Anosov mapping classes in terms of their translation distance and the distance between their axes in Teichmüller’s metric. The method makes reference to Teichmüller space only.

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