Pseudo-Anosov homeomorphisms of punctured non-orientable surfaces with small stretch factor

Abstract

We prove that in the non-orientable setting, the minimal stretch factor of a pseudo-Anosov homeomorphism of a surface of genus $g$ with a fixed number of punctures is asymptotically on the order of $\frac{1}{g}$. Our result adapts the work of Yazdi to non-orientable surfaces. We include the details of Thurston's theory of fibered faces for non-orientable 3-manifolds.

arXiv commentAccepted to Algebraic and Geometric Topology. Statement (1) on page 11 is revised, typos corrected

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