Laminations of a graph on a pair of pants

Sanjay Ramassamy (1)

1 UMPA-ENSL - Unité de Mathématiques Pures et Appliquées

A lamination of a graph embedded on a surface is a collection of pair-wise disjoint non-contractible simple closed curves drawn on the graph. In the case when the surface is a sphere with three punctures (a.k.a. a pair of pants), we first identify the lamination space of a graph embedded on that surface as a lattice polytope, then we characterize the polytopes that arise as the lamination space of some graph on a pair of pants. This characterizes the image of a purely topological version of the spectral map for the vector bundle Laplacian for a flat connection on a pair of pants. The proof uses a graph exploration technique akin to the peeling of planar maps.

Domains: Mathematics [math]; Combinatorics [math.CO]; Mathematics [math]; Geometric Topology [math.GT]

Sanjay Ramassamy. Laminations of a graph on a pair of pants. 2018. ⟨ensl-01759975v1⟩