Pseudo-Anosov dilatations and the Johnson filtration
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Answering a question of Farb–Leininger–Margalit, we give explicit lower bounds for the dilatations of pseudo-Anosov mapping classes lying in the kth term of the Johnson filtration of the mapping class group.
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تاریخ انتشار 2015