Geometry, Topology and Dynamics Seminar
Jing Tao
UIC
Linearly Bounded Conjugator Property for the Mapping Class Group
Abstract: Given two conjugate mapping classes $f$ and $g$, we produce a
conjugating element $w$ such that $|w| \le K (|f| + |g|)$, where $|\cdot|$
denotes the word metric with respect to a fixed generating set, and $K$
is a constant depending only on the generating set. As a consequence,
the conjugacy problem for mapping class groups is exponentially
bounded.
Wednesday April 22, 2009 at 3:00 PM in SEO 612