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Researchers create explicit representations for skein algebras of small surfaces, revealing their Azumaya loci.

Study non-standard bi-orders on punctured torus bundles, matching standard ones in key subgroups.

We generalize Dynnikov coordinate system previosly defined on the standard punctured disk to an orientable surface of genus-1 with n punctures and one boundary component.

Let $S$ be a torus with a hyperbolic metric admitting one puncture or cone singularity. We describe which infinitesimal deformations of $S$ lengthen (or shrink) all closed geodesics. We also study how the answer degenerates when $S$ becomes Euclidean, i.e. very small.

Authors prove quantum invariant conjecture for figure-eight knot complement.

We survey some of our recent results on length series identities for hyperbolic (cone) surfaces, possibly with cusps and/or boundary geodesics; classical Schottky groups; representations/characters of the one-holed torus group to $SL(2, \mathbf C)$; and hyperbolic 3 manifolds obtained by hyperbolic Dehn surgery on punc…

For a pseudo-Anosov homeomorphism $f$ on a closed surface of genus $g\geq 2$, for which the entropy is on the order $\frac{1}{g}$ (the lowest possible order), Farb-Leininger-Margalit showed that the volume of the mapping torus is bounded, independent of $g$. We show that the analogous result fails for a surface of fixe…

Study bounds topological entropy of maps on surfaces with punctures based on mapping torus homology.

We prove a uniqueness result for finite-dimensional representations of the Kauffman skein algebra $\mathcal{S}_A(S)$ of a surface $S$, when $A$ is a root of unity and when the surface $S$ is a sphere with at most four punctures or a torus with at most one puncture. We show that, if two irreducible representations of $\…

We show that the minimum of asymptotic translation lengths of all point-pushing pseudo-Anosov maps on any one punctured Riemann surface is one.

Researchers compute quantum invariant for four-puncture sphere, verifying volume conjecture.

We study the ideal triangulation graph $T(S)$ of a punctured surface $S$ of finite type. We show that if $S$ is not the sphere with at most three punctures or the torus with one puncture, then the natural map from the extended mapping class group of $S$ into the simplicial automorphism group of $T(S)$ is an isomorphism…

Geometrically, twist numbers on punctured tori are dense and non-continuous.

Abstract framework for two meromorphic forms on punctured surfaces.

The volume conjecture for surface diffeomorphisms connects volumes to polynomial evaluations.

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We study filling sets of simple closed curves on punctured surfaces. In particular we study lower bounds on the cardinality of sets of curves that fill and that pairwise intersect at most k times on surfaces with given genus and number of punctures. We are able to establish orders of growth for even k and show that for…

Study on zeros of Gaussian sections on semipositive line bundles on punctured Riemann surfaces.

We study the {\it arc and curve} complex $AC(S)$ of an oriented connected surface $S$ of finite type with punctures. We show that if the surface is not a sphere with one, two or three punctures nor a torus with one puncture, then the simplicial automorphism group of $AC(S)$ coincides with the natural image of the exten…

Quantum trace maps for surfaces are shown to be compatible under triangulations.

For a punctured surface $S$, we characterize the representations of its fundamental group into $\mathrm{PSL}_2 (\mathbb{C})$ that arise as the monodromy of a meromorphic projective structure on $S$ with poles of order at most two and no apparent singularities. This proves the analogue of a theorem of Gallo-Kapovich-Mar…

Max systoles on spheres with punctures are counted.

In these short notes we characterize the loxodromic unit vector fields on antipodally punctured Euclidean spheres as the only ones achieving a lower bound for the volume functional depending on the Poincaré indexes around their singularities.

We find the minimum dilatation of pseudo-Anosov braids on n-punctured discs for 3 <= n <= 8. This covers the results of Song-Ko-Los (n=4) and Ham-Song (n=5). The proof is elementary, and uses the Lefschetz formula.

In the quantum Teichmuller theory, based on Penner coordinates, the mapping class groups of punctured surfaces are represented projectively. The case of a genus three surface with one puncture is worked out explicitly. The projective factor is calculated. It is given by the exponential of the Liouville central charge.

Describes curves on surfaces with punctures and boundaries.

We give a recipe to compute the geometric intersection number of an integral lamination with a particular type of integral lamination on an n-times punctured disk. This provides a way to find the geometric intersection number of two arbitrary integral laminations when combined with an algorithm of Dynnikov and Wiest.

We report on the computation of the integral homology of the mapping class group of genus g surfaces with one boundary curve and m punctures, when 2g + m is smaller than 6. In particular, it includes the genus 2 case with no or one puncture.

Researchers determine all possible representations of monodromy for Schwarzian equations on punctured surfaces.

Unique maximal curve systems found for up to 5 punctures.

For $n\geq 1$, we exhibit a lower bound for the volume of a unit vector field on $\mathbb{S}^{2n+1}\backslash\{\pm p\}$ depending on the absolute values of its Poincaré indices around $\pm p$. We determine which vector fields achieve this volume, and discuss the idea of having multiple isolated singularities of arbitra…

The paper finds bounds on shortest dense curves on surfaces.

We show that one can define a spectral curve for the Cauchy-Riemann operator on a punctured elliptic curve if one imposes appropriate boundary conditions. Algebraic curves of the type thus obtained appear as irreducible components of spectral curves of minimal tori with planar ends in R^3. It appears that these curves …

Consider the problem of estimating the minimum entropy of pseudo-Anosov maps on a surface of genus $g$ with $n$ punctures. We determine the behaviour of this minimum number for a certain large subset of the $(g,n)$ plane, up to a multiplicative constant. In particular it has been shown that for fixed $n$, this minimum …

We construct a triangulation of a compactification of the Moduli space of a surface with at least one puncture that is closely related to the Deligne-Mumford compactification. Specifically, there is a surjective map from the compactification we construct to the Deligne-Mumford compactification so that the inverse image…

Bestvina and Handel have found an effective algorithm that determines whether a given homeomorphism of an orientable, possibly punctured surface is pseudo-Anosov. We present a software package in Java that realizes this algorithm for surfaces with one puncture. Moreover, the package allows the user to define homeomorph…

Let $D_n$ be the $n$-punctured disk. We prove that a family of essential simple arcs starting and ending at the boundary and pairwise intersecting at most twice is of size at most $\binom{n+1}{3}$. On the way, we also show that any nontrivial square complex homeomorphic to a disk whose hyperplanes are simple arcs inter…

We study the possibility of realizing exotic smooth structures on punctured simply connected $4$-manifolds as leaves of a codimension one foliation on a compact manifold. In particular, we show the existence of uncountably many smooth open $4$-manifolds which are not diffeomorphic to any leaf of a codimension one trans…

Corrects a 1-off error in Harer's spine dimension calculation for decorated Teichmüller spaces.

This paper constructs metrics with constant fractional higher order curvature on punctured spheres.

We consider a surface $Σ$ of genus $g \geq 3$, either closed or with exactly one puncture. The mapping class group $Γ$ of $Σ$ acts symplectically on the abelian moduli space $M = \Hom(π_1(Σ), U(1)) = \Hom(H_1(Σ),U(1))$, and hence both $L^2(M)$ and $C^\infty(M)$ are modules over $Γ$. In this paper, we prove that both th…

In this paper we consider a punctured Riemann surface endowed with a Hermitian metric which equals the Poincaré metric near the punctures and a holomorphic line bundle which polarizes the metric. We show that the Bergman kernel can be localized around the singularities and its local model is the Bergman kernel of the p…

It has been known since the time of Nielsen that the mapping class group $\text{Mod}_{g,1}$ of a surface of genus $g$ and one puncture acts faithfully by homeomorphisms on the circle. In this note, we show that this standard representation of the mapping class group is not rigid, precisely, if $G<\text{Mod}_{g,1}$ is a…

New theorem on spheres with punctures using infinity metric.

Boundary Dehn twist on $K3$ surfaces becomes trivial after abelianization.

Minimal surfaces in S3(2) linked to vector fields on punctured sphere.

Study on loops on non-orientable surfaces, determining cardinality and order.

In genus two and higher, the fundamental group of a closed surface acts naturally on the curve complex of the surface with one puncture. Combining ideas from previous work of Kent--Leininger--Schleimer and Mitra, we construct a universal Cannon--Thurston map from a subset of the circle at infinity for the closed surfac…