Cofinality conjecture for products of boundary Dehn twists
Cofinality conjecture for products of boundary Dehn twists
Let and let be curves isotopic to the boundary components of the surface . For positive exponents , consider the product
Here denotes the Dehn twist about , and an element of a left-ordered group is cofinal if its positive and negative powers are unbounded in the ordering. Cofinality conjecture. Any element of the form
for positive exponents is cofinal in every left ordering of . This strengthens the preceding result for , where the product of the Dehn twists about curves isotopic to the boundary components is cofinal and central in every left ordering.
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Adam Clay and Tyrone Ghaswala, “Cofinal elements and fractional Dehn twist coefficients”, arXiv:2210.07044 (2023).
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