Linear progress in the complex of curves
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Abstract:
We show that a random walk on the mapping class group of an orientable surface of finite type makes linear progress in the relative metric, which is quasi-isometric to the complex of curves.References
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Additional Information
- Joseph Maher
- Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, College of Staten Island (CUNY), Staten Island, New York 10314
- Email: joseph.maher@csi.cuny.edu
- Received by editor(s): February 8, 2008
- Published electronically: January 21, 2010
- © Copyright 2010 American Mathematical Society
- Journal: Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 362 (2010), 2963-2991
- MSC (2000): Primary 37E30, 20F65, 60J10
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9947-10-04903-2
- MathSciNet review: 2592943