{ "id": "1512.04420", "version": "v1", "published": "2015-12-14T17:37:47.000Z", "updated": "2015-12-14T17:37:47.000Z", "title": "Projections of the sphere graph to the arc graph of a surface", "authors": [ "Brian H. Bowditch", "Francesca Iezzi" ], "categories": [ "math.GT" ], "abstract": "Let S be a compact surface, and M be the double of a handlebody. Given a homotopy class of maps from S to M inducing an isomorphism of fundamental groups, we describe a canonical uniformly Lipschitz retraction of the sphere graph of M to the arc graph of S.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v1", "updated": "2015-12-14T17:37:47.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "subjects": [ "20F65" ], "keywords": [ "arc graph", "sphere graph", "projections", "homotopy class", "fundamental groups" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 0, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable", "adsabs": "2015arXiv151204420B" } } }