An arc graph distance formula for the flip graph

Gültepe, Funda; Leininger, Christopher

doi:10.1090/proc/13451

An arc graph distance formula for the flip graph
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Abstract:

Using existing technology, we prove a Masur-Minsky style distance formula for flip-graph distance between two triangulations, expressed as a sum of the distances of the projections of these triangulations into arc graphs of the suitable subsurfaces of $S$.

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