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Geometry of the augmented disk graph

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2014

JIMING MA*
Affiliation:
School of Mathematical Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai, China, 200433. e-mail: majiming@fudan.edu.cn

Abstract

For a handlebody H, we define two graphs, the augmented disk graph $\mathcal{ADG}(H)$ and the truncated augmented disk graph $\mathcal{TADG}(H)$, and we show they are hyperbolic in the sense of Gromov. In the process, we show they are quasi-isometric to two other disk graphs defined by U. Hamenstädt, the super conducting disk graph $\mathcal{SDG}(H)$ and the electrified disk graph $\mathcal{EDG}(H)$ respectively. So we reprove two theorems of Hamenstädt [12].

Our approach uses techniques from Masur–Schleimer's study on the hyperbolicity of the disk graph $\mathcal{DG}(H)$ [21].

Type
Research Article
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Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 2014 

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