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Spectral gap of random hyperbolic surfaces

Geometric Topology 2024-03-20 v1 Spectral Theory

Abstract

Let XX be a closed, connected, oriented surface of genus gg, with a hyperbolic metric chosen at random according to the Weil--Petersson measure on the moduli space of Riemannian metrics. Let λ1=λ1(X)\lambda_1=\lambda_1(X) bethe first non-zero eigenvalue of the Laplacian on XX or, in other words, the spectral gap.In this paper we give a full road-map to prove that for arbitrarily small~α>0\alpha>0,\begin{align*} \Pwp{\lambda_1 \leq \frac{1}{4} - \alpha^2 } \Lim_{g\To +\infty} 0.\end{align*}The full proofs are deferred to separate papers.

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@article{arxiv.2403.12576,
  title  = {Spectral gap of random hyperbolic surfaces},
  author = {Nalini Anantharaman and Laura Monk},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2403.12576},
  year   = {2024}
}
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