arXiv research

The study connects translation length to manifold structure, proving bounds and identifying finite types.

We establish bounds on the minimal asymptotic pseudo-Anosov translation lengths on the complex of curves of orientable surfaces. In particular, for a closed surface with genus $g \geqslant 2$, we show that there are positive constants $a_1 < a_2$ such that the minimal translation length is bounded below and above by $a…

New bound for group action length without diameter restriction.

We show that an Anosov map has a geodesic axis on the curve graph of a torus. The direct corollary of our result is the stable translation length of an Anosov map on the curve graph is always a positive integer. As the proof is constructive, we also provide an algorithm to calculate the exact translation length for any…

Study minimal translation lengths on curve complexes, providing bounds and constructing examples.

The paper studies translation lengths on sphere complexes and related cones.

We study the asymptotic behavior of the asymptotic translation lengths on the curve complexes of pseudo-Anosov monodromies in a fibered cone of a fibered hyperbolic 3-manifold $M$ with $b_1(M) \geq 2$. For a sequence $(Σ_n, ψ_n)$ of fibers and monodromies in the fibered cone, we show that the asymptotic translation len…

New findings on translation lengths in Teichmüller and curve graphs for pseudo-Anosovs.

We prove that all elements of infinite order in $Out(F_n)$ have positive translation lengths; moreover, they are bounded away from zero. Consequences include a new proof that solvable subgroups of $Out(F_n)$ are finitely generated and virtually abelian and the new result that such subgroups are quasi-convex.

Study on stable translation lengths of surface homeomorphisms and their approximations.

New bounds on homological eigenvalues relate to Weil-Petersson length.

The paper proves instability of translating λ-solitons and provides bounds on their length.

Study of Torelli groups of partitioned surfaces with bounds and asymptotic lengths.

Paper finds surfaces where KVol is close to the surface's genus.

Automorphisms and subdivisions of Helly graphs are studied, leading to explicit models and rational translation lengths.

We define a family of four-point invariants for Shilov boundaries of bounded symmetric domains of tube type, which generalizes the classical four-point cross ratio on the unit circle. This generalization, which is based on a similar construction of Clerc and Ørsted, is functorial and well-behaved under products; these …

We introduce the notions of overcommutation and overcommutation length in groups, and show that these concepts are closely related to representations of the fundamental groups of 3-manifold and their Heegaard genus. We give many examples including translations in the affine group of the line and provide upper bounds fo…

New lattice extensions of Schottky groups in hyperbolic space.

Circle packings on translation surfaces are consistent across different surfaces.

A subset of a group is characteristic if it is invariant under every automorphism of the group. We study word length in fundamental groups of closed hyperbolic surfaces with respect to characteristic generating sets consisting of a finite union of orbits of the automorphism group, and show that the translation length o…

The study examines translation lengths of pseudo-Anosov maps on curve graphs.

Random walks on hyperbolic spaces show linear growth in translation lengths.

Neural machine translation is a relatively new approach to statistical machine translation based purely on neural networks. The neural machine translation models often consist of an encoder and a decoder. The encoder extracts a fixed-length representation from a variable-length input sentence, and the decoder generates…

Uniform systole bounds for arithmetic orbifolds and number fields.

We show that the probability that a finitely supported random walk on a non-elementary subgroup of the the mapping class group gives a non-pseudo-Anosov element decays exponentially in the length of the random walk. More generally, we show that if R is a set of mapping class group elements with an upper bound on their …

Study on finiteness property of right-angled Artin groups actions on extension graphs.

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

The study shows how to measure translation surfaces with short saddle connections.

Study homeomorphisms on fine curve graph of surfaces, revealing new types of dynamics.

Study finds saddle connections on random surfaces follow Poisson distribution.

In this paper, we show that the minimal asymptotic translation length of the Torelli group $\mathcal{I}_g$ of the surface $S_g$ of genus $g$ on the curve graph asymptotically behaves like $1/g$, contrary to the mapping class group $Mod(S_g)$, which behaves like $1/g^2$. We also show that the minimal asymptotic translat…

Let $M$ be a hyperbolic fibered 3-manifold. We study properties of sequences $(S_{α_n}, ψ_{α_n})$ of fibers and monodromies for primitive integral classes in the fibered cone of $M$. The main tool is the asymptotic translation length $\ell_{\mathcal{C}} (ψ_{α_n})$ of the pseudo-Anosov monodromy $ψ_{α_n}$ on the curve …

In this paper we prove that there is a direct relationship between Salem numbers and translation lengths of hyperbolic elements of arithmetic hyperbolic groups that are determined by a quadratic form over a totally real number field. As an application we determine a sharp lower bound for the length of a closed geodesic…

Random walks on metric spaces embed quasi-isometrically into the space.

Improved bounds on acylindricity for right-angled Artin groups.

We show that when the genus and punctures of a surface are directly proportional by some rational number the minimal asymptotic translation length in the curve complex has behavior inverse to the square of the Euler characteristic. We also show that when the genus is fixed and the number of punctures varies the behavio…

Neural machine translation is a recently proposed approach to machine translation. Unlike the traditional statistical machine translation, the neural machine translation aims at building a single neural network that can be jointly tuned to maximize the translation performance. The models proposed recently for neural ma…

Random walks on hyperbolic spaces follow predictable large deviation principles.

Let $M$ be a hyperbolic fibered 3-manifold with $b_1(M) \geq 2$ and let $S$ be a fiber with pseudo-Anosov monodromy $ψ$. We show that there exists a sequence $(R_n, ψ_n)$ of fibers and monodromies contained in the fibered cone of $(S,ψ)$ such that the asymptotic translation length of $ψ_n$ on the curve complex $\mathca…

Given $φ$ a pseudo-Anosov map, let $\ell_\mathcal{T}(φ)$ denote the translation length of $φ$ in the Teichmüller space, and let $\ell_\mathcal{C}(φ)$ denote the stable translation length of $φ$ in the curve graph. Gadre--Hironaka--Kent--Leininger showed that, as a function of Euler characteristic $χ(S)$, the minimal po…

We study the SL(2,R)-infimal lengths of simple closed curves on half-translation surfaces. Our main result is a characterization of Veech surfaces in terms of these lengths. We also revisit the "no small virtual triangles" theorem of Smillie and Weiss and establish the following dichotomy: the virtual triangle area spe…

The authors of (Cho et al., 2014a) have shown that the recently introduced neural network translation systems suffer from a significant drop in translation quality when translating long sentences, unlike existing phrase-based translation systems. In this paper, we propose a way to address this issue by automatically se…

The study explores normal generators for mapping class groups and their properties.

Dominant representations found via Fock-Goncharov coordinates.

We show that the Teichmüller space of a surface without boundary and with punctures, equipped with Thurston's metric is the limit (in an appropriate sense) of Teichmüller spaces of surfaces with boundary, equipped with their arc metrics, when the boundary lengths tend to zero. We use this to obtain a result on the tran…

Lower bound on volumes of special mapping tori.

New theorem shows metrics of certain groups are close if their lengths are identical.

Abelian differentials on Riemann surfaces can be seen as translation surfaces, which are flat surfaces with cone-type singularities. Closed geodesics for the associated flat metrics form cylinders whose number under a given maximal length generically has quadratic asymptotics in this length, with a common coefficient c…