Pseudo-Anosov homeomorphisms of punctured nonorientable surfaces with small stretch factor
Pseudo-Anosov homeomorphisms of punctured nonorientable surfaces with small stretch factor
We prove that in the nonorientable 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 1=g.Our result adapts the work of Yazdi to nonorientable surfaces.We include the details of Thurston's theory of …