On the geometry of graphs associated to infinite-type surfaces

Abstract

Consider a connected orientable surface $S$ of infinite topological type, i.e. with infinitely-generated fundamental group. We describe the large-scale geometry of arbitrary connected subgraphs of the arc complex $A(S)$ and curve complex $C(S)$ of $S$, provided they are invariant under a sufficiently big subgroup of the mapping class group $Mod(S)$. We obtain a number of consequences; in particular we recover the main results of J. Bavard and Aramayona-Fossas-Parlier .

arXiv commentv3. We include missing hypothesis in Theorem 1.7, which was ommited in the published version