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We study general representations of the free group on two generators into $SL(2,C)$, and the connection with generalized Markoff maps, following Bowditch. We show that Bowditch's Q-conditions for generalized Markoff maps are sufficient for…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-11-21 Ser Peow Tan , Yan Loi Wong , Ying Zhang

We give a proof of an unpublished result of Thurston showing that given any hyperbolic metric on a surface of finite type with nonempty boundary, there exists another hyperbolic metric on the same surface for which the lengths of all simple…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2009-09-09 Athanase Papadopoulos , Guillaume Théret

We study properties of typical closed geodesics on expander surfaces of high genus, i.e. closed hyperbolic surfaces with a uniform spectral gap of the Laplacian. Under an additional systole lower bound assumption, we show almost every…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2026-02-16 Benjamin Dozier , Jenya Sapir

For a hyperbolic surface S of finite type we consider the set A(S) of angles between closed geodesics on S. Our main result is that there are only finitely many rational multiples of \pi in A(S).

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-03-08 Sugata Mondal

Let $\Sigma$ be a compact $C^2$ hypersurface in $\R^{2n}$ bounding a convex set with non-empty interior. In this paper it is proved that there always exist at least $n$ geometrically distinct closed characteristics on $\Sigma$ if $\Sigma$…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2014-07-22 Chun-gen Liu , Yiming Long , Chaofeng Zhu

We prove and explore a family of identities relating lengths of curves and orthogeodesics of hyperbolic surfaces. These identities hold over a large space of metrics including ones with hyperbolic cone points, and in particular, show how to…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2020-06-11 Ara Basmajian , Hugo Parlier , Ser Peow Tan

Cutting a hyperbolic surface X along a simple closed multi-geodesic results in a hyperbolic structure on the complementary subsurface. We study the distribution of the shapes of these subsurfaces in moduli space as boundary lengths go to…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2022-08-10 Francisco Arana-Herrera , Aaron Calderon

We introduce a new method to establish McShane's Identity, based upon the fact that elliptic elements of order two in the Fuchsian group uniformizing the quotient of a fixed once-punctured hyperbolic torus act so as to exclude points as…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2008-02-22 Thomas A. Schmidt , Mark Sheingorn

We investigate ortho-integral (OI) hyperbolic surfaces with totally geodesic boundaries, defined by the property that every orthogeodesic (i.e. a geodesic arc meeting the boundary perpendicularly at both endpoints) has an integer…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-10-15 Nhat Minh Doan , Khanh Le

We study the geometry of hyperbolic cone surfaces, possibly with cusps or geodesic boundaries. We prove that any hyperbolic cone structure on a surface of non-exceptional type is determined up to isotopy by the geodesic lengths of a finite…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2017-03-07 Huiping Pan

Given a hyperbolic surface $\Sigma$ of genus $g$ with $r$ cusps, Mirzakhani proved that the number of closed geodesics of length at most $L$ and of a given type is asymptotic to $cL^{6g-6+2r}$ for some $c>0$. Since a closed geodesic…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-10-27 Dounnu Sasaki

We show that Norbury's McShane identity for nonorientable cusped hyperbolic surfaces N generalizes to quasifuchsian representations of pi_1(N) as well as pseudo-Anosov mapping Klein bottles with singular fibers given by N.

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2021-04-13 Yi Huang

For compact Riemann surfaces, the collar theorem and Bers' partition theorem are major tools for working with simple closed geodesics. The main goal of this paper is to prove similar theorems for hyperbolic cone-surfaces. Hyperbolic…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-08-23 Emily B. Dryden , Hugo Parlier

We study closed geodesics on hyperbolic surfaces, and give bounds for their angles of intersection and self-intersection, and for the sides of the polygons that they form, depending only on the lengths of the geodesics

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2019-05-28 Max Neumann-Coto , Peter Scott

We prove that, if a closed geodesic $\Gamma$ on a complete finite type hyperbolic surface has at least 2 self-intersections, then the length of $\Gamma$ has an lower bound $2\log(5+2\sqrt6)$, and the lower bound is sharp, attained on a…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-10-02 Wujie Shen

We prove that the geodesic flow on closed surfaces displays a hyperbolic set if the shadowing property holds C2-robustly on the metric. Similar results are obtained when considering even feeble properties like the weak shadowing and the…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2017-06-29 Mario Bessa , Maria Joana Torres , Joao Lopes Dias

Greg McShane introduced a remarkable identity for lengths of simple closed geodesics on the once punctured torus with a complete, finite volume hyperbolic structure. Bowditch later generalized this and gave sufficient conditions for the…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Ser Peow Tan , Yan Loi Wong , Ying Zhang

We prove that every closed oriented 3-manifold admits a hyperbolic cone-manifold structure with cone-angle arbitrarily close to 2pi.

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2014-11-11 Juan Souto

We study the cone of transverse measures to a fixed geodesic lamination on an infinite type hyperbolic surface. Under simple hypotheses on the metric, we give an explicit description of this cone as an inverse limit of finite-dimensional…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2023-08-21 Mladen Bestvina , Alexander J. Rasmussen

We prove Poisson approximation results for the bottom part of the length spectrum of a random closed hyperbolic surface of large genus. Here, a random hyperbolic surface is a surface picked at random using the Weil-Petersson volume form on…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2021-03-18 Maryam Mirzakhani , Bram Petri