Howard Masur, Saul Schleimer
Published 2010-10-15Version 1
We give a distance estimate for the metric on the disk complex and show that it is Gromov hyperbolic. As another application of our techniques, we find an algorithm which computes the Hempel distance of a Heegaard splitting, up to an error depending only on the genus.
On the connectedness of subcomplexes of a disk complex
Automorphisms of the disk complex
Generalized Heegaard splittings and the disk complex
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