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Let $X$ be a compact hyperbolic surface of genus $g$, and $C$ a geodesic current on $X$. Denote by $h_X(C)$ the measure-theoretic entropy of $C$ with respect to the geodesic flow. Assume that $C$ is ergodic. In this paper, we establish a…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2026-04-08 Tina Torkaman

We establish new instances of the cutoff phenomenon for geodesic paths and for the Brownian motion on compact hyperbolic manifolds. We prove that for any fixed compact hyperbolic manifold, the geodesic path started on a spatially localized…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-05-06 Charles Bordenave , Joffrey Mathien

In this paper, we try to generalize to the case of compact Riemannian orbifolds $Q$ some classical results about the existence of closed geodesics of positive length on compact Riemannian manifolds $M$. We shall also consider the problem of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 K. Guruprasad , A. Haefliger

This paper proves an atomic decomposition of the space of $1$-dimensional metric currents without boundary, in which the atoms are specified by closed Lipschitz curves with uniform control on their Morrey norms. Our argument relies on a…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2025-02-17 You-Wei Benson Chen , Jesse Goodman , Felipe Hernandez , Daniel Spector

We prove polynomial decay of correlations for geodesic flows on a class of nonpositively curved surfaces where zero curvature only occurs along one closed geodesic. We also prove that various statistical limit laws, including the central…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2024-07-26 Yuri Lima , Carlos Matheus , Ian Melbourne

We prove a quantitative estimate with a power saving error term for the number of filling closed geodesics of a given topological type and length $\leq L$ on an arbitrary closed, orientable, negatively curved surface. More generally, we…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2021-06-23 Francisco Arana-Herrera

We propose a general framework for studying pseudo-Anosov homeomorphisms on translation surfaces. This new approach, among other consequences, allows us to compute the systole of the Teichmueller geodesic flow restricted to the…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2017-05-31 Corentin Boissy , Erwan Lanneau

Our main point of focus is the set of closed geodesics on hyperbolic surfaces. For any fixed integer $k$, we are interested in the set of all closed geodesics with at least $k$ (but possibly more) self-intersections. Among these, we…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2016-09-02 Viveka Erlandsson , Hugo Parlier

We introduce a notion of super-potential for positive closed currents of bidegree (p,p) on projective spaces. This gives a calculus on positive closed currents of arbitrary bidegree. We define in particular the intersection of such currents…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2008-09-19 Tien-Cuong Dinh , Nessim Sibony

We study a flow of $G_2$ structures which induce the same Riemannian metric which is the negative gradient flow of an energy functional. We prove Shi-type estimates for the torsion tensor along the flow. We show that at a finite-time…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-02-15 Shubham Dwivedi , Panagiotis Gianniotis , Spiro Karigiannis

The mapping class group of a surface $\S$ acts on the set of closed geodesics on $\S$. This action preserves self-intersection number. In this paper, we count the orbits of curves with at most $K$ self-intersections, for each $K \geq 1$.…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2016-07-20 Jenya Sapir

This expository article discusses some connections between the geometry of a hyperbolic 3-manifold homotopy-equivalent to a surface, and the combinatorial properties of its end invariants. In particular a necessary and sufficient condition…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Yair N. Minsky

Let X be a complete hyperbolic surface of finite area. We establish that the intersection points of closed geodesics with length <T are equidistributed on X as T goes to infinity.

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-10-01 Tina Torkaman

In this note, we prove the existence of a closed geodesic of positive length on any compact developable orbifold of dimension 3, 5, or 7. The argument uses the stratification of the singular locus, and reduces the problem of existence of a…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2015-04-28 George Dragomir

We show that if two closed hyperbolic surfaces (not necessarily orientable or even connected) have the same Laplace spectrum, then for every length they have the same number of orientation-preserving geodesics and the same number of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-04-08 Peter G. Doyle , Juan Pablo Rossetti

The classical construction of the symplectic structure on the space of geodesic trajectories via Hamiltonian reduction fails in the pseudo-Riemannian setting due to a dimensional mismatch created by the null geodesics. This paper proposes a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-10-08 Patrick Iglesias-Zemmour

Let $S$ be a compact, connected, oriented surface, possibly with boundary, of negative Euler characteristic. In this article we extend Lindenstrauss-Mirzakhani's and Hamenst\"adt's classification of locally finite mapping class group…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2021-05-18 Viveka Erlandsson , Gabriele Mondello

In this note we present new asymptotic estimates comparing the word length and geodesic length of closed geodesics on surfaces with (variable) negative sectional curvatures. In particular, we provide an averaged comparison of these two…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2020-04-16 Stephen Cantrell , Mark Pollicott

We show the flexibility of the metric entropy and obtain additional restrictions on the topological entropy of geodesic flow on closed surfaces of negative Euler characteristic with smooth non-positively curved Riemannian metrics with fixed…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2020-08-07 Thomas Barthelmé , Alena Erchenko

An important, if relatively less well known aspect of the singularity theorems in Lorentzian Geometry is to understand how their conclusions fare upon weakening or suppression of one or more of their hypotheses. Then, theorems with modified…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-08-20 I. P. Costa e Silva , J. L. Flores