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Weaving Geodesics and New Phenomena in Horocyclic Dynamics

Dynamical Systems 2026-02-26 v3 Geometric Topology

Abstract

We construct geometrically infinite hyperbolic surfaces supporting horocycles with tailored recurrence properties. In particular, we obtain the first examples of non-trivial minimal horocyclic orbit closures and of infinite locally-finite conservative horocyclic invariant measures which are singular with respect to the geodesic flow. Other examples include surfaces supporting horocyclic orbit closures of arbitrary Hausdorff dimension in (1,2)(1,2).

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@article{arxiv.2510.24609,
  title  = {Weaving Geodesics and New Phenomena in Horocyclic Dynamics},
  author = {Françoise Dal'bo and James Farre and Or Landesberg and Yair Minsky},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2510.24609},
  year   = {2026}
}

Comments

21 pages, 4 figures, rewritten subsection 1.5 and section 2 for improved readability - results unchanged