A bound for reflections across Jordan curves.
The Root Conjecture predicts that every pseudo-Anosov diffeomorphism of a closed surface has Teichmüller approximate th roots for all . In this paper, we replace the Teichmüller topology by the heights-widths topology – that is induced by convergence of tangent quadratic differentials with respect to both the heights and widths functionals – and show that every pseudo-Anosov diffeomorphism of a closed surface has heights-widths approximate th roots for all .