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Counting problems for geodesics on arithmetic hyperbolic surfaces

Geometric Topology 2017-02-28 v1

Abstract

It is a longstanding problem to determine the precise relationship between the geodesic length spectrum of a hyperbolic manifold and its commensurability class. A well known result of Reid, for instance, shows that the geodesic length spectrum of an arithmetic hyperbolic surface determines the surface's commensurability class. It is known, however, that non-commensurable arithmetic hyperbolic surfaces may share arbitrarily large portions of their length spectra. In this paper we investigate this phenomenon and prove a number of quantitative results about the maximum cardinality of a family of pairwise non-commensurable arithmetic hyperbolic surfaces whose length spectra all contain a fixed (finite) set of nonnegative real numbers.

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@article{arxiv.1702.08062,
  title  = {Counting problems for geodesics on arithmetic hyperbolic surfaces},
  author = {Benjamin Linowitz},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1702.08062},
  year   = {2017}
}