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Counting arcs on hyperbolic surfaces

Geometric Topology 2020-12-01 v1

Abstract

We give the asymptotic growth of the number of (multi-)arcs of bounded length between boundary components on complete finite-area hyperbolic surfaces with boundary. Specifically, if SS has genus gg, nn boundary components and pp punctures, then the number of orthogeodesic arcs in each pure mapping class group orbit of length at most LL is asymptotic to L6g6+2(n+p)L^{6g-6+2(n+p)} times a constant. We prove an analogous result for arcs between cusps, where we define the length of such an arc to be the length of the sub-arc obtained by removing certain cuspidal regions from the surface.

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@article{arxiv.2011.13969,
  title  = {Counting arcs on hyperbolic surfaces},
  author = {Nick Bell},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2011.13969},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

18 pages, 3 figures. Comments welcome

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