Reid asked whether all convex‐cocompact subgroups of mapping class groups are separable. Using a construction of Manning–Mj–Sageev, we give examples of separable convex‐cocompact subgroups that are free of arbitrary finite rank, while prior examples seem to all be virtually cyclic.
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Hagen et al. (2023) studied this question.
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