Counting pseudo-Anosov mapping classes on the 3-punctured projective plane

Authors: BLAZEJ SZEPIETOWSKI

Abstract: We prove that in the pure mapping class group of the 3-punctured projective plane equipped with the word metric induced by certain generating set, the ratio of the number of pseudo-Anosov elements to the number of all elements in a ball centered at the identity tends to one, as the radius of the ball tends to infinity. We also compute growth functions of the sets of reducible and pseudo-Anosov elements.

Keywords: Mapping class group, nonorientable surface, growth functions

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