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Let $S_{g,n}$ be a surface of genus $g $ with $n$ marked points. Let $X$ be a complete hyperbolic metric on $S_{g,n}$ with $n$ cusps. Every isotopy class $[\gamma]$ of a closed curve $\gamma \in \pi_{1}(S_{g,n})$ contains a unique closed…

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The slope gap distribution of a translation surface is a measure of how random the directions of the saddle connections on the surface are. It is known that Veech surfaces, a highly symmetric type of translation surface, have gap…

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In this paper, we prove that on every Finsler $n$-sphere $(S^n, F)$ with reversibility $\lambda$ satisfying $F^2<(\frac{\lambda+1}{\lambda})^2g_0$ and $l(S^n, F)\ge \pi(1+\frac{1}{\lambda})$, there always exist at least $n$ prime closed…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-09-22 Wei Wang

We address the problem of computing bounds for the self-intersection number (the minimum number of self-intersection points) of members of a free homotopy class of curves in the doubly-punctured plane as a function of their combinatorial…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2010-01-27 Moira Chas , Anthony Phillips

In this paper we present the algorithms for calculating the differential geometric properties {t,n,b1,b2,b3,k1,k2,k3,k4} along-with geodesic curvature and geodesic torsion of the transversal intersection curve of four hypersurfaces (given…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-01-19 Mohamd Saleem Lone , O. Aleessio , Mohammad Jamali , Mohammad Hasan Shahid

We study mapping class group orbits of homotopy and isotopy classes of curves with self-intersections. We exhibit the asymptotics of the number of such orbits of curves with a bounded number of self-intersections, as the complexity of the…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2016-05-24 Patricia Cahn , Federica Fanoni , Bram Petri

For an oriented surface $S$, the singular set of a fold map $f:S\rightarrow \mathbb{R}^2$ is a collection of smooth curves, also known as fold singularities. We construct a sharp lower bound on the number of self-intersections of such fold…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2026-05-14 Joshua Drouin , Liam Kahmeyer

Let $\Gamma\subseteq\text{PSL}(2, \mathbb{R})$ correspond to the group of units of norm $1$ in an Eichler order $\mathrm{O}$ of an indefinite quaternion algebra over $\mathbb{Q}$. Closed geodesics on $\Gamma\backslash\mathbb{H}$ correspond…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2025-12-24 James Rickards

The interaction strength I(X) of a compact hyperbolic surface X is the best upper bound for the intersection number of two closed geodesics divided by the product of their lengths. Let $M_g$ be the moduli space of compact hyperbolic…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-10-02 Tina Torkaman

We consider embedded ring-type surfaces (that is, compact, connected, orientable surfaces with two boundary components and Euler-Poincar\'{e} characteristic zero) in ${\bold R}^3$ of constant mean curvature which meet planes $\Pi_1$ and…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-09-06 John McCuan

We consider random Gaussian eigenfunctions of the Laplacian on the three-dimensional flat torus, and investigate the number of nodal intersections against a straight line segment. The expected intersection number, against any smooth curve,…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2017-09-08 Riccardo Walter Maffucci

Let $G$ be a finite graph on $[n]:=\{1, \ldots, n\}$ and $\kappa(G)$ its vertex connectivity. Let $S=K[x_1, \ldots, x_n]$ denote the polynomial ring in $n$ variables over a field $K$ and $I(G^c)$ the edge ideal of the complementary graph…

Commutative Algebra · Mathematics 2026-05-07 Takayuki Hibi , Seyed Amin Seyed Fakhari

In an orientable surface with boundary, free homotopy classes of curves on surfaces are in one to one correspondence with cyclic reduced words in a set of standard generators of the fundamental group. The combinatorial length of a class is…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2010-11-30 Moira Chas

A pair of distinct free homotopy classes of closed curves in an orientable surface $F$ with negative Euler characteristic is said to be length equivalent if for any hyperbolic structure on $F$, the length of the geodesic representative of…

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We prove that on a restricted contact type hypersurface the number of leaf-wise intersections is bounded from below by a certain cup-length.

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2010-10-20 Peter Albers , Al Momin

We study the asymptotic behavior of geodesics near the boundary of a conformally compact Riemannian manifold $(X,g)$. In the case where the sectional curvature at infinity is constant (the asymptotically hyperbolic case) it is known that…

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We consider rectangular graph superlattices of sides l1, l2 with the wavefunction coupling at the junctions either of the delta type, when they are continuous and the sum of their derivatives is proportional to the common value at the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-08-31 Pavel Exner , Ralf Gawlista

Let $\Sigma$ be a closed hyperbolic surface. We study, for fixed $g$, the asymptotics of the number of those periodic geodesics in $\Sigma$ having at most length $L$ and which can be written as the product of $g$ commutators. The basic idea…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2023-04-24 Viveka Erlandsson , Juan Souto

Consider a Jacobian elliptic surface $E \to C$ with a section $P$ of infinite order. Previous work of the first author and Urz\'ua over the complex numbers gives a bound on the number of tangencies between $P$ and a torsion section of $E$…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-08-12 Douglas Ulmer , José Felipe Voloch

We show that every forward complete Finsler manifold of infinite fundamental group and not homotopy-equivalent to $S^1$ has infinitely many geometrically distinct geodesics joining any given pair of points $p$ and $q$. In the special case…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-01-21 Simon Allais