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Recent literature on Weil-Petersson random hyperbolic surfaces has met a consistent obstacle: the necessity to condition the model, prohibiting certain rare geometric patterns (which we call tangles), such as short closed geodesics or…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-10-15 Nalini Anantharaman , Laura Monk

Our goal is to show, in two different contexts, that "random" surfaces have large pants decompositions. First we show that there are hyperbolic surfaces of genus $g$ for which any pants decomposition requires curves of total length at least…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2010-11-03 Larry Guth , Hugo Parlier , Robert Young

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

In this article, we prove that typical hyperbolic surfaces, sampled with the Weil-Petersson probability measure, have a spectral gap at least $2/9 - \epsilon$. This is an intermediate result on the way to our proof of the optimal spectral…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2026-04-14 Nalini Anantharaman , Laura Monk

We prove that the minimal diameter of a hyperbolic compact orientable surface of genus $g$ is asymptotic to $\log g$ as $g \to \infty$. The proof relies on a random construction, which we analyse using lattice point counting theory and the…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2023-02-22 Thomas Budzinski , Nicolas Curien , Bram Petri

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

We give upper bounds for $L^p$ norms of eigenfunctions of the Laplacian on compact hyperbolic surfaces in terms of a parameter depending on the growth rate of the number of short geodesic loops passing through a point. When the genus $g \to…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2021-04-21 Clifford Gilmore , Etienne Le Masson , Tuomas Sahlsten , Joe Thomas

This paper contains a purely topological theorem and a geometric application. The topological theorem states that if M is a simple closed orientable 3-manifold such that \pi_1(M) contains a genus g surface group and H_1(M;Z/2Z) has rank at…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2008-02-03 Ian Agol , Marc Culler , Peter B. Shalen

We show that there is a constant $c>0$ such that a genus $g$ closed hyperbolic surface, sampled at random from the moduli space $\mathcal{M}_{g}$ with respect to the Weil-Petersson probability measure, has Laplacian spectral gap at least…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2025-11-18 Will Hide , Davide Macera , Joe Thomas

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

Let $\mathcal{M}_g$ be the moduli space of hyperbolic surfaces of genus $g$ endowed with the Weil-Petersson metric. In this paper, we show that for any $\epsilon>0$, as $g\to \infty$, for a generic surface in $\mathcal{M}_g$, the error term…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-06-06 Yunhui Wu , Yuhao Xue

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

We study the geometry and spectral theory of Weil-Petersson random surfaces with genus-$g$ and $n$ cusps in the large-$n$ limit. We show that for a random hyperbolic surface in $\mathcal{M}_{g,n}$ with $n$ large, the number of small…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-02-03 Will Hide , Joe Thomas

Let $\Sigma^p_g$ denote a surface of genus $g$ and with $p$ punctures. Our main result is that the fraction of degree $n$ covers of $\Sigma^p_g$ which have the Putman-Wieland property tends to $1$ as $n\to \infty$. In addition, we show that…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2024-03-01 Adam Klukowski , Vladimir Marković

In this paper, we investigate the asymptotics of shortest filling closed multi-geodesics of closed hyperbolic surfaces as systole $\to 0$ or as genus $\to \infty$. We first show that for a closed hyperbolic surface $X_g$ of genus $g$, the…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2026-01-27 Yue Gao , Zhongzi Wang , Yunhui Wu

We study the distribution of geometrically and topologically nearly geodesic random surfaces in a closed hyperbolic 3-manifold M. In particular, we describe PSL(2,R) invariant measures on the Grassmann bundle G(M) which arise as limits of…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2023-09-07 Jeremy Kahn , Vladimir Markovic , Ilia Smilga

We prove that eigenfunctions of the Laplacian on a compact hyperbolic surface delocalise in terms of a geometric parameter dependent upon the number of short closed geodesics on the surface. In particular, we show that an $L^2$ normalised…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2021-04-26 Joe Thomas

In this paper, we investigate the asymptotic behavior of the non-simple systole, which is the length of a shortest non-simple closed geodesic, on a random closed hyperbolic surface on the moduli space $\mathcal{M}_g$ of Riemann surfaces of…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-08-21 Yuxin He , Yang Shen , Yunhui Wu , Yuhao Xue

We show that the number of simple closed geodesics of length bounded by L on a hyperbolic surface of genus g with c cusps and b boundary components grows roughly like L^{6g+2b+2c-6}. This has been conjectured for some time.

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Igor Rivin

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
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