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Pseudo-Anosov dilatations and the Johnson filtration

  • Justin Malestein

    The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

  • Andrew Putman

    Rice University, Houston, USA
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Abstract

Answering a question of Farb, Leininger, and Margalit, we give explicit lower bounds for the dilatations of pseudo-Anosov mapping classes lying in the k-th term of the Johnson filtration of the mapping class group.

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Justin Malestein, Andrew Putman, Pseudo-Anosov dilatations and the Johnson filtration. Groups Geom. Dyn. 10 (2016), no. 2, pp. 771–793

DOI 10.4171/GGD/365