The asymptotic behavior of the minimal pseudo-Anosov dilatations in the hyperelliptic handlebody groups

TL;DR

This paper investigates the minimal pseudo-Anosov dilatations in hyperelliptic handlebody groups, showing they decrease proportionally to 1/g as genus g increases, and provides finite presentations for these groups.

Contribution

It establishes the asymptotic behavior of minimal dilatations in hyperelliptic handlebody groups and offers finite presentations for these groups.

Findings

Logarithm of minimal dilatation is comparable to 1/g

Asymptotic behavior matches that of the entire mapping class group

Finite presentations of hyperelliptic handlebody groups are provided

Abstract

We consider the hyperelliptic handlebody group on a closed surface of genus $g$. This is the subgroup of the mapping class group on a closed surface of genus $g$ consisting of isotopy classes of homeomorphisms on the surface that commute with some fixed hyperelliptic involution and that extend to homeomorphisms on the handlebody. We prove that the logarithm of the minimal dilatation (i.e, the minimal entropy) of all pseudo-Anosov elements in the hyperelliptic handlebody group of genus $g$ is comparable to $1/g$. This means that the asymptotic behavior of the minimal pseudo-Anosov dilatation of the subgroup of genus $g$ in question is the same as that of the ambient mapping class group of genus $g$. We also determine finite presentations of the hyperelliptic handlebody groups.