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We study the relationship between the lengths of closed geodesics on hyperbolic surfaces and their topological complexity, measured by the self-intersection number. In particular, we provide explicit upper bounds for the length $s_k(X)$ of…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-12-01 Changjie Chen

The Weil-Petersson volume of genus-g hyperbolic surfaces with geodesic boundaries is known since work of Mirzakhani to be polynomial in the boundary lengths. We provide a bijective proof of this fact in the genus-0 case in the presence of a…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-12-11 Timothy Budd , Thomas Meeusen , Bart Zonneveld

This paper is about a type of quantitative density of closed geodesics and orthogeodesics on complete finite-area hyperbolic surfaces. The main results are upper bounds on the length of the shortest closed geodesic and the shortest doubly…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2023-06-26 Nhat Minh Doan

We give a proof of an unpublished result of Thurston showing that given any hyperbolic metric on a surface of finite type with nonempty boundary, there exists another hyperbolic metric on the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

This article is dedicated to prove Buser's conjecture about Bers' constants for spheres with cusps (or marked points) and for hyperelliptic surfaces. More specifically, our main theorem states that any hyperbolic sphere with $n$ cusps has a…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2014-10-02 Florent Balacheff , Hugo Parlier

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

We show that for any $\epsilon>0$, $\alpha\in[0,\frac{1}{2})$, as $g\to\infty$ a generic finite-area genus g hyperbolic surface with $n=O\left(g^{\alpha}\right)$ cusps, sampled with probability arising from the Weil-Petersson metric on…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2022-10-25 Will Hide

As a natural analog of Urysohn's inequality in Euclidean space, Gao, Hug, and Schneider showed in 2003 that in spherical or hyperbolic space, the total measure of totally geodesic hypersurfaces meeting a given convex body K is minimized…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-10-28 Thomas Hack , Peter Pivovarov

Exploiting a relationship between closed geodesics on a generic closed hyperbolic surface S and a certain unipotent flow on the product space T_1(S) x T_1(S), we obtain a local asymptotic equidistribution result for long closed geodesics on…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Lewis Bowen

Moduli spaces of hyperbolic surfaces with geodesic boundary components of fixed lengths may be endowed with a symplectic structure via the Weil-Petersson form. We show that, as the boundary lengths are sent to infinity, the Weil-Petersson…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2010-10-21 Norman Do

Let $\mathcal{M}_g$ be the moduli space of hyperbolic surfaces of genus g endowed with the Weil-Petersson metric. In this paper, we introduce a function $L(g)$ of genus $g$ and call the geodesics whose length less than $L(g)$ short…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-09-15 Jinsong Liu , Xu Shan , Lang Wang , Yaosong Yang

Short geodesics are important in the study of the geometry and the spectra of Riemann surfaces. Bers' theorem gives a global bound on the length of the first $3g-3$ geodesics. We use the construction of Brooks and Makover of random Riemann…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Eran Makover , Jeffrey McGowan

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

In this paper, we obtain upper bounds on the multiplicity of Laplacian eigenvalues for closed hyperbolic surfaces in terms of the number of short closed geodesics and the genus $g$. For example, we show that if the number of short closed…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-12-03 Xiang He , Yunhui Wu , Haohao Zhang

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 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

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

We introduce a method for constructing Weil-Petersson (WP) geodesics with certain behavior in the Teichm\"{u}ller space. This allows us to study the itinerary of geodesics among the strata of the WP completion and its relation to subsurface…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2020-01-31 Yair Minsky , Babak Modami

We prove that the minimal length of a closed geodesic with self-intersection number $k$ on any finite-type hyperbolic surface is $2\cosh^{-1}(1+2k)$ for $k>1750$. This improves the previously known threshold $k > 10^{13350}$. Our proof is…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-08-05 Wujie Shen

We analyze the coarse geometry of the Weil-Petersson metric on Teichm\"uller space, focusing on applications to its synthetic geometry (in particular the behavior of geodesics). We settle the question of the strong relative hyperbolicity of…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2014-11-11 Jeffrey Brock , Howard Masur