Date
Wed, 07 Mar 2018
16:00
Location
C5
Speaker
Marissa Loving
Organisation
University of Illinois

 The $n$-stranded pure surface braid group of a genus g surface can be described as the subgroup of the pure mapping class group of a surface of genus $g$ with $n$-punctures which becomes trivial on the closed surface. I am interested in the least dilatation of pseudo-Anosov pure surface braids. For the $n=1$ case, upper and lower bounds on the least dilatation were proved by Dowdall and Aougab—Taylor, respectively.  In this talk, I will describe the upper and lower bounds I have proved as a function of $g$ and $n$.

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