Multiarc and curve graphs are hierarchically hyperbolic

Abstract

A multiarc and curve graph is a simplicial graph whose vertices are arc and curve systems on a compact, connected, orientable surface S. We show that all connected, non-trivial multiarc and curve graphs preserved by the natural action of PMod(S) and whose adjacent vertices have bounded geometric intersection number are hierarchically hyperbolic spaces with respect to witness subsurface projection. This result extends work of Kate Vokes on twist-free multicurve graphs and confirms two conjectures of Saul Schleimer in a broad setting. In addition, we prove that the PMod(S)-equivariant quasi-isometry type of such a graph is uniquely classified by its set of connected witness subsurfaces.