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A conjecture on the lengths of filling pairs

Geometric Topology 2020-11-17 v4 General Topology

Abstract

A pair (α,β)(\alpha, \beta) of simple closed geodesics on a closed and oriented hyperbolic surface MgM_g of genus gg is called a filling pair if the complementary components of αβ\alpha\cup\beta in MgM_g are simply connected. The length of a filling pair is defined to be the sum of their individual lengths. In \cite{Aou}, Aougab-Huang conjectured that the length of any filling pair on MM is at least mg2\frac{m_{g}}{2}, where mgm_{g} is the perimeter of the regular right-angled hyperbolic (8g4)\left(8g-4\right)-gon. In this paper, we prove a generalized isoperimetric inequality for disconnected regions and we prove the Aougab-Huang conjecture as a corollary.

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@article{arxiv.1907.07096,
  title  = {A conjecture on the lengths of filling pairs},
  author = {Bidyut Sanki and Arya Vadnere},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1907.07096},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

Accepted for publication in Geometriae Dedicata; 16 pages, 1 figure