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Each free homotopy class of directed closed curves on a surface with boundary can be described by a cyclic reduced word in the generators of the fundamental group and their inverses. The word length is the number of letters of the cyclic…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2013-05-28 Moira Chas , Keren Li , Bernard Maskit

Exploiting a relationship between closed geodesics on a generic closed hyperbolic surface S and a certain unipotent flow on the product space T_1(S) x T_1(S), we obtain a local asymptotic equidistribution result for long closed geodesics on…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Lewis Bowen

We introduce a coarse perspective on relations of the $SU(2)$-Witten-Reshetikhin-Turaev TQFT, the Weil-Petersson geometry of the Teichm\"uller space, and volumes of hyperbolic 3-manifolds. Using data from the asymptotic expansions of the…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-12-11 Renaud Detcherry , Efstratia Kalfagianni

We consider collections of disjoint simple closed curves in a compact orientable surface which decompose the surface into pairs of pants. The isotopy classes of such curve systems form the vertices of a 2-complex, whose edges correspond to…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Allen Hatcher

We study the length statistics of the components of a random multicurve on a surface of genus $g \geq 2$. For each fixed genus, the existence of such statistics follows from the work of M.~Mirzakhani, F.~Arana-Herrera and M.~Liu. We prove…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2022-02-22 Delecroix Vincent , Liu Mingkun

In the first part of this work we explore the geometry of infinite type surfaces and the relationship between its convex core and space of ends. In particular, we show that a geodesically complete hyperbolic surface is made up of its convex…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2019-02-20 Ara Basmajian , Dragomir Saric

We discuss an alternative approach to the uniformisation problem on surfaces with boundary by representing conformal structures on surfaces $M$ of general type by hyperbolic metrics with boundary curves of constant positive geodesic…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-07-13 Melanie Rupflin

The goal of this work is to give new quantitative results about the distribution of semi-arithmetic hyperbolic surfaces in the moduli space of closed hyperbolic surfaces. We show that two coverings of genus $g$ of a fixed arithmetic surface…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2024-03-20 Cayo Dória , Nara Paiva

We give a lower bound on the number of non-simple closed curves on a hyperbolic surface, given upper bounds on both length and self-intersection number. In particular, we carefully show how to construct closed geodesics on pairs of pants,…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2017-02-21 Jenya Sapir

We provide analogues for non-orientable surfaces with or without boundary or punctures of several basic theorems in the setting of the Thurston theory of surfaces which were developed so far only in the case of orientable surfaces. Namely,…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2013-10-02 Athanase Papadopoulos , Robert C. Penner

In this paper, we determine the distribution of the length partition of a random multicurve of fixed topological type on a closed hyperbolic surface using the methods of Margulis' thesis and Mirzakhani's equidistribution theorem for…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2022-12-05 Mingkun Liu

A pants decomposition of an orientable surface S is a collection of simple cycles that partition S into pants, i.e., surfaces of genus zero with three boundary cycles. Given a set P of n points in the plane, we consider the problem of…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2009-09-29 Sheung-Hung Poon , Shripad Thite

In this paper, we investigate basic geometric quantities of a random hyperbolic surface of genus $g$ with respect to the Weil-Petersson measure on the moduli space $\mathcal{M}_g$. We show that as $g$ goes to infinity, a generic surface…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2023-07-04 Xin Nie , Yunhui Wu , Yuhao Xue

It is well-known that a Riemann surface can be decomposed into the so-called pairs-of-pants. Each pair-of-pants is diffeomorphic to a Riemann sphere minus 3 points. We show that a smooth complex projective hypersurface of arbitrary…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Grigory Mikhalkin

A pair of pants is a genus zero orientable surface with three boundary components. A pants decomposition of a surface is a finite collection of unordered pairwise disjoint simple closed curves embedded in the surface that decompose the…

Graphics · Computer Science 2016-09-12 Mustafa Hajij , Tamal Dey , Xin Li

Motivated by recent work on Delaunay triangulations of hyperbolic surfaces, we consider the minimal number of vertices of such triangulations. First, we will show that every hyperbolic surface of genus $g$ has a simplicial Delaunay…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2020-11-20 Matthijs Ebbens , Hugo Parlier , Gert Vegter

The main goal of this article is to understand how the length spectrum of a random surface depends on its genus. Here a random surface means a surface obtained by randomly gluing together an even number of triangles carrying a fixed metric.…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2016-04-28 Bram Petri

The first non-zero Laplace eigenvalue of a hyperbolic surface, or its spectral gap, measures how well-connected the surface is: surfaces with a large spectral gap are hard to cut in pieces, have a small diameter and fast mixing times. For…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2026-01-22 Laura Monk

Let $S$ be a closed orientable surface with genus $g\geq 2$. For a sequence $\s_i$ in the Teichm\"uller space of $S$, which converges to a projective measured lamination $[\lam]$ in the Thurston boundary, we obtain a relation between $\lam$…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Young Deuk Kim

We study the order of lengths of closed geodesics on hyperbolic surfaces. Our first main result is that the order of lengths of curves determine a point in Teichm\"uller space. In an opposite direction, we identify classes of curves whose…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-06-10 Hugo Parlier , Hanh Vo , Binbin Xu