{ "id": "math/0312385", "version": "v1", "published": "2003-12-19T16:47:16.000Z", "updated": "2003-12-19T16:47:16.000Z", "title": "The Pants Complex Has Only One End", "authors": [ "Howard Masur", "Saul Schleimer" ], "comment": "6 pages", "categories": [ "math.GT" ], "abstract": "The authors prove that for a closed surface of genus at least 3, the graph of pants decompositions has only one end.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v1", "updated": "2003-12-19T16:47:16.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "subjects": [ "57M07" ], "keywords": [ "pants complex", "pants decompositions", "closed surface" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 6, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable", "adsabs": "2003math.....12385M" } } }