Random walks on the mapping class group

DOI10.1215/00127094-2010-216zbMath1213.37072arXivmath/0604433OpenAlexW2950320606MaRDI QIDQ630633

Joseph Maher

Publication date: 18 March 2011

Published in: Duke Mathematical Journal (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0604433

zbMATH Keywords

mapping class grouprandom walks on groupspseudo-Anosov diffeomorphismsorientation-preserving diffeomorphisms

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Sums of independent random variables; random walks (60G50) Geometric group theory (20F65) Fuchsian groups and their generalizations (group-theoretic aspects) (20H10) Dynamical systems involving homeomorphisms and diffeomorphisms of planes and surfaces (37E30)

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