Affine diffeomorphism groups are undistorted

The affine diffeomorphism group (Formula presented.) of a half-translation surface (Formula presented.) comprise the self-diffeomorphisms with constant differential away from the singularities. This group coincides with the stabiliser of the associated Teichmüller disc under the action of the mapping class group on Teichmüller space. We prove that any finitely generated subgroup of (Formula presented.) is undistorted in the mapping class group. We also show that the systole map restricted to the associated electrified Nielsen core in the Teichmüller disc is a quasi-isometric embedding into the curve graph.