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Let $M$ be a closed hyperbolic $3$-manifold. A homotopy class $[S]$ of surfaces in $M$ is filling if any representative cuts $M$ into components contractible in $M$. We prove that there exist $\epsilon_0, g_0>0$ such that every homotopy…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2026-03-20 Xiaolong Hans Han

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

This note is about a type of quantitative density of closed geodesics on closed hyperbolic surfaces. The main results are upper bounds on the length of the shortest closed geodesic that $\varepsilon$-fills the surface.

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2017-05-31 Ara Basmajian , Hugo Parlier , Juan Souto

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 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

We investigate typical behavior of geodesics on a closed flat surface $S$ of genus $g\geq 2$. We compare the length quotient of long arcs in the same homotopy class with fixed endpoints for the flat and the hyperbolic metric in the same…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2011-02-22 Klaus Dankwart

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

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

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

This article introduces the notion of L-tangle-free compact hyperbolic surfaces, inspired by the identically named property for regular graphs. Random surfaces of genus g, picked with the Weil-Petersson probability measure, are (a log…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2021-10-01 Laura Monk , Joe Thomas

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

A closed totally geodesic surface in the figure eight knot complement remains incompressible in all but finitely many Dehn fillings. In this paper, we show that there is no universal upper bound on the number of such fillings, independent…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2014-10-01 Pradthana Jaipong

This paper is about closed hyperbolic surface amalgams with a focus on the growth of the number of closed geodesics. As in the case of surfaces, we show that topological and volume entropies coincide, but we show stark differences in how…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2026-03-18 Hugo Parlier , Yandi Wu

Let $S_{g,n}$ be a surface of genus $g $ with $n$ marked points. Let $X$ be a complete hyperbolic metric on $S_{g,n}$ with $n$ cusps. Every isotopy class $[\gamma]$ of a closed curve $\gamma \in \pi_{1}(S_{g,n})$ contains a unique closed…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2016-01-14 Maryam Mirzakhani

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

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

We prove a quantitative estimate, with a power saving error term, for the number of simple closed geodesics of length at most $L$ on a compact surface equipped with a Riemannian metric of negative curvature. The proof relies on the…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2021-07-06 Alex Eskin , Maryam Mirzakhani , Amir Mohammadi

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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