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In this note we show that for any hyperbolic surface S, the number of geodesics of length bounded above by L in the mapping class group orbit of a fixed closed geodesic with a single double point is asymptotic to L raised to the dimension…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2011-07-05 Igor Rivin

This paper explores the Riemannian geometry of the Wasserstein space of the circle, namely $P(S^{1})$, the set of probability measures on the unit circle endowed with the 2-Wasserstein metric. Building on the foundational work of Otto,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-04-17 André Magalhães de Sá Gomes , Christian S. Rodrigues , Luiz A. B. San Martin

We construct Weil-Petersson (WP) geodesic rays with minimal filling non-uniquely ergodic ending lamination which are recurrent to a compact subset of the moduli space of Riemann surfaces. This construction shows that an analogue of the…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2016-02-23 Jeffrey Brock , Babak Modami

We prove topological transitivity for the Weil Petersson geodesic flow for two-dimensional moduli spaces of hyperbolic structures. Our proof follows a new approach that exploits the density of singular unit tangent vectors, the geometry of…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2009-10-05 Mark Pollicott , Howard Weiss , Scott A. Wolpert

In [4], Z. Huang showed that in the thick part of the moduli space $\mathcal{M}_g$ of compact Riemann surfaces of genus $g$, the sectional curvature of the Weil--Petersson metric is bounded below by a constant depending on injectivity…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2010-07-28 Lee-Peng Teo

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 prove a geometric criterion on a $\SL$-invariant ergodic probability measure on the moduli space of holomorphic abelian differentials on Riemann surfaces for the non-uniform hyperbolicity of the Kontsevich--Zorich cocycle on the real…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2011-03-25 Giovanni Forni

A general class of Lorentzian metrics, $M_0 x R^2$, $ds^2 = <.,.> + 2 du dv + H(x,u) du^2$, with $(M_0, <.,.>$ any Riemannian manifold, is introduced in order to generalize classical exact plane fronted waves. Here, we start a systematic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-25 A. M. Candela , J. L. Flores , Miguel Sanchez

We derive several results that describe the rate at which a generic geodesic makes excursions into and out of a cusp on a finite area hyperbolic surface and relate them to approximation with respect to the orbit of infinity for an…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2009-04-16 Andrew Haas

We propose an optimization algorithm for computing geodesics on the universal Teichm\"uller space T(1) in the Weil-Petersson ($W P$) metric. Another realization for T(1) is the space of planar shapes, modulo translation and scale, and thus…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2015-10-15 Matt Feiszli , Akil Narayan

We study the critical exponent random variable $\delta_X$ on moduli spaces of hyperbolic surfaces with boundary, using the normalized Weil-Petersson measures $d\mu_{WP}$ as probability measures. We use the spine graph construction of…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-01-16 Henry Talbott

We show that the strong asymptotic class of Weil-Petersson (WP) geodesics with narrow end invariant and bounded annular coefficients is determined by the forward ending lamination. This generalizes the Recurrent Ending Lamination Theorem of…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2016-03-09 Babak Modami

The hyperbolic metric for the punctured unit disc in the Euclidean plane is singular at the origin. A renormalization of the metric at the origin is provided by the Euclidean metric. For Riemann surfaces there is a unique germ for the…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Scott A. Wolpert

In this paper, we study the class of Weil--Petersson circle homeomorphisms from the point of view of three-dimensional anti-de Sitter space $\mathbf{AdS}^{2,1}$. We show that a homeomorphism $\varphi:\mathbf{RP}^1\to\mathbf{RP}^1$ is…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-04-21 Farid Diaf , Alex Moriani , Rym Smaï , Graham Andrew Smith , Enrico Trebeschi

The Ahlfors-Weill extension of a conformal mapping of the disk is generalized to the lift of a harmonic mapping of the disk to a minimal surface, producing homeomorphic and quasiconformal extensions. The extension is obtained by a…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2010-05-28 Martin Chuaqui , Peter Duren , Brad Osgood

Geodesics escape is widely used to study the scattering of hyperbolic equations. However, there are few progresses except in a simply connected complete Riemannian manifold with nonpositive curvature. We propose a kind of complete…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-12-03 Zhen-Hu Ning , Fengyan Yang , Xiaopeng Zhao

We prove that the geodesic flow for the Weil-Petersson metric on the moduli space of Riemann surfaces is ergodic (in fact Bernoulli) and has finite, positive metric entropy.

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2011-10-12 Keith Burns , Howard Masur , Amie Wilkinson

We prove a structure theorem for ergodic homological rotation sets of homeomorphisms isotopic to the identity on a closed orientable hyperbolic surface: this set is made of a finite number of pieces that are either one-dimensional or almost…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2024-07-22 Alejo García-Sassi , Pierre-Antoine Guihéneuf , Pablo Lessa

We establish exponential mixing for the geodesic flow $\varphi_t\colon T^1S\to T^1S$ of an incomplete, negatively curved surface $S$ with cusp-like singularities of a prescribed order. As a consequence, we obtain that the Weil-Petersson…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2016-05-31 Keith Burns , Howard Masur , Carlos Matheus , Amie Wilkinson

We prove generalizations of the isoperimetric inequality for both spherical and hyperbolic wave fronts (i.e. piecewise smooth curves which may have cusps). We then discuss "bicycle curves" using the generalized isoperimetric inequalities.…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-07-16 Sean Howe , Matthew Pancia , Valentin Zakharevich