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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

This article explores closed geodesics on hyperbolic surfaces. We show that, for sufficiently large $k$, the shortest closed geodesics with at least $k$ self-intersections, taken among all hyperbolic surfaces, all lie on an ideal pair of…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2022-11-16 Ara Basmajian , Hugo Parlier , Hanh Vo

The geometry of closed surfaces equipped with a Euclidean metric with finitely many conical points of arbitrary angle is studied. The main result is that the set of closed geodesics is dense in the space of geodesics.

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2014-12-11 Charalampos Charitos , Ioannis Papadoperakis , Georgios Tsapogas

A periodic geodesic on a surface has a natural lift to the unit tangent bundle; when the complement of this lift is hyperbolic, its volume typically grows as the geodesic gets longer. We give an upper bound for this volume which is linear…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2016-05-11 Maxime Bergeron , Tali Pinsky , Lior Silberman

We present and prove a topological characterization of geodesic laminations on hyperbolic surfaces of finite type.

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2018-05-30 Luis-Miguel Lopez

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

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

On a closed Riemannian surface of negative curvature, we prove a characterization for configurations of closed geodesics arising from one parameter Allen-Cahn min-max constructions. One of the facts we conclude is that every geodesic occurs…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-03-20 Vanderson Lima

We give bounds on the number of non-simple closed curves on a negatively curved surface, given upper bounds on both length and self-intersection number. In particular, it was previously known that the number of all closed curves of length…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2017-02-21 Jenya Sapir

In the present paper, we show that the minimal length of closed geodesics on finite-type hyperbolic surfaces with self-intersection number $k$ has order $2\log k$ as $k$ gets large.

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2022-07-19 Wujie Shen , Jiajun Wang

Strong hyperbolicity is a coarse notion of negative curvature, stronger than Gromov hyperbolicity, that includes all CAT(-k) metrics for k positive and allows the use of dynamical techniques available in negative curvature, such as…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2026-05-15 Meenakshy Jyothis , Dídac Martínez-Granado

For any $\varepsilon>0$, we construct a closed hyperbolic surface of genus $g=g(\varepsilon)$ with a set of at most $\varepsilon g$ systoles that fill, meaning that each component of the complement of their union is contractible. This…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2019-10-08 Maxime Fortier Bourque

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…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2026-02-26 Françoise Dal'bo , James Farre , Or Landesberg , Yair Minsky

In this work, we study the geodesics of the space of certain geometrically and physically motivated subspaces of the space of immersed curves endowed with a first order Sobolev metric. This includes elastic curves and also an extension of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-09-25 Esfandiar Nava-Yazdani

We exhibit orbits of the geodesic flow on a hyperbolic surface with at least one cusp such that every tubular neighborhood contains uncountably many distinct geodesic flow orbits. The proof relies on new phenomena, namely the existence of…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2026-04-08 Sergi Burniol Clotet , Françoise Dal'Bo

We study configurations of immersed curves in surfaces and surfaces in 3-manifolds. Among other results, we show that primitive curves have only finitely many configurations which minimize the number of double points. We give examples of…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Joel Hass , Peter Scott

We prove an upper bound for the number of shortest closed geodesics in a closed hyperbolic manifold of any dimension in terms of its volume and systole, generalizing a theorem of Parlier for surfaces. We also obtain bounds on the number of…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2019-05-28 Maxime Fortier Bourque , Bram Petri

Let X be a manifold equipped with a complete Riemannian metric of constant negative curvature and finite volume. We demonstrate the finiteness of the collection of totally geodesic immersed hypersurfaces in X that lie in the zero-level set…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-11-20 Chris Judge , Sugata Mondal

This is a tale describing the large scale geometry of Euclidean plane domains with their hyperbolic or quasihyperbolic distances. We prove that in any hyperbolic plane domain, hyperbolic and quasihyperbolic quasi-geodesics are the same…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2017-04-25 David A Herron , Stephen M Buckley

In this paper we obtain a bound on the number of isometry classes of finite area hyperbolic surfaces which are length isospectral to a given surface depending only on the topological type of the surface and the length of the shortest closed…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2014-03-25 Weston Ungemach