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An upper bound on the asymptotic translation lengths on the curve graph and fibered faces

We study the asymptotic behavior of the asymptotic translation lengths on the curve complexes of pseudo-Anosov monodromies in a fibered cone of a fibered hyperbolic 3-manifold $M$ with $b_1(M) \geq 2$. For a sequence $(Σ_n, ψ_n)$ of fibers and monodromies in the fibered cone, we show that the asymptotic translation length on the curve complex is bounded above by $1/χ(Σ_n)^{1+1/r}$ as long as their projections to the fibered face converge to a point in the interior, where $r$ is the dimension of the $ψ_n$-invariant homology of $Σ_n$ (which is independent of $n$). As a corollary, if $b_1(M) = 2$, the asymptotic translation length on the curve complex of such a sequence of primitive elements behaves like $1/χ(Σ_n)^{2}$. Furthermore, together with a work of E. Hironaka, our theorem can be used to determine the asymptotic behavior of the minimal translation lengths of handlebody mapping class groups and the set of mapping classes with homological dilatation one.