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We consider closed hypersurfaces smoothly immersed in hyperbolic manifolds up to homotopy and commensurability. We prove that if a closed hyperbolic manifold $M$ contains a sequence of asymptotically geodesic hypersurfaces, then $\pi_1(M)$…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2026-03-27 Xiaolong Hans Han , Ruojing Jiang

We will investigate the local geometry of the surfaces in the $7$-dimensional Euclidean space associated to harmonic maps from a Riemann surface $\Sigma$ into $S^6$. By applying methods based on the use of harmonic sequences, we will…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-07-12 Pedro Morais , Rui Pacheco

We show that any infinite-type surface without planar ends admits arbitrarily large families of length isospectral hyperbolic structures. If the surface has infinite genus and its space of ends is self-similar, we construct an uncountable…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2020-12-15 Federica Fanoni

We proved that the Maximal cusp is not dense on the Bers boundary of the Teichm\"uller space of infinite type Riemann surfaces satisfying some analytic conditions. This is a counterexample to the infinite-type case of the McMullen result…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2024-10-21 Ryo Matsuda

This paper unites the gauge-theoretic and hyperbolic-geometric perspectives on the asymptotic geometry of the character variety of SL(2,C) representations of a surface group. Specifically, we find an asymptotic correspondence between the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-12-04 Andreas Ott , Jan Swoboda , Richard Wentworth , Michael Wolf

Let $S$ be a closed, orientable surface of genus at least 2. The cotangent bundle of the "hyperbolic'' Teichm\"uller space of $S$ can be identified with the space $\CP$ of complex projective structures on $S$ through measured laminations,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2010-11-02 Kirill Krasnov , Jean-Marc Schlenker

We relate the topology of the Morse boundary of a group to geometric and algorithmic properties of the group. In particular, we show that a group has $\sigma$-compact Morse boundary if and only if it is Morse local-to-global. We also…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2026-05-13 Carolyn Abbott , Stefanie Zbinden

We show that finite-type surfaces are characterized by a topological analog of the Hopf property. Namely, an oriented surface $\Sigma$ is of finite-type if and only if every proper map $f\colon\Sigma\to \Sigma$ of degree one is homotopic to…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2023-06-07 Sumanta Das , Siddhartha Gadgil

We study injective homomorphisms between big mapping class groups of infinite-type surfaces. First, we construct (uncountably many) examples of surfaces without boundary whose (pure) mapping class groups are not co-Hopfian; these are the…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2021-03-02 Javier Aramayona , Christopher J. Leininger , Alan McLeay

A basic feature of Teichm\"uller theory of Riemann surfaces is the interplay of two dimensional hyperbolic geometry, the behavior of geodesic-length functions and Weil-Petersson geometry. Let $\mathcal{T}_g$ $(g\geq 2)$ be the Teichm\"uller…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-09-01 Yunhui Wu

Motivated by the Lawrence-Krammer-Bigelow representations of the classical braid groups, we study the homology of unordered configurations in an orientable genus-$g$ surface with one boundary component, over non-commutative local systems…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-09-16 Christian Blanchet , Martin Palmer , Awais Shaukat

Let $ \text{Mod}(S_g)$ denote the mapping class group of the closed orientable surface $S_g$ of genus $g\geq 2$, and let $f\in \text{Mod}(S_g)$ be of finite order. We give an inductive procedure to construct an explicit hyperbolic structure…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2017-10-24 Shiv Parsad , Kashyap Rajeevsarathy , Bidyut Sanki

Analogous to Weil-Petersson quasicircles, we investigate infinite circle patterns in the Euclidean plane parameterized by discrete harmonic functions of finite Dirichlet energy. The space of such circle patterns forms an…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2026-03-11 Wai Yeung Lam

We consider the action of a finite subgroup of the mapping class group $Mod(S)$ of an oriented compact surface $S$ of genus $g \geq 2$ on the moduli space $\mathcal{R}(S,G)$ of representations of $\pi_1(S)$ in a connected semisimple real…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2020-07-01 Oscar Garcia-Prada , Graeme Wilkin

We initiate and develop the theory of complex harmonic maps to holomorphic Riemannian symmetric spaces, which we make use of to study complex analytic aspects of higher Teichm\"uller theory, with a focus on rank $2$ Hitchin components.…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-06-16 Christian El Emam , Nathaniel Sagman

This paper addresses several isotopy problems on $4$-manifolds. First, we classify the isotopy classes of embeddings of $\Sigma$ in $\Sigma\times S^2$ that are geometrically dual to $\{\mbox{pt}\}\times S^2$, where $\Sigma$ is a closed…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2026-02-03 Jianfeng Lin , Weiwei Wu , Yi Xie , Boyu Zhang

For $S$ a closed surface of genus $g\geq2$, we construct a canonical diffeomorphism from the degree $3$ Fock-Thomas space $\mathcal{T}^3(S)$ of higher complex structures to the $\text{SL}(3,\mathbb{R})$ Hitchin component. Our construction…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2022-04-12 Alexander Nolte

We show that for a very general and natural class of curvature functions, the problem of finding a complete strictly convex hypersurface satisfying f({\kappa}) = {\sigma} over (0,1) with a prescribed asymptotic boundary {\Gamma} at infinity…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-10-20 Bo Guan , Joel Spruck

Let $S$ be a boundaryless infinite-type surface with finitely many ends and consider an end-periodic homeomorphism $f$ of S. The end-periodicity of $f$ ensures that $M_f$, its associated mapping torus, has a compactification as a…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2024-08-14 Brandis Whitfield

In this article, we derive estimates of Teichm\"uller modular forms, and associated invariants. Let $\mathcal{M}_{g}$ denote the moduli space of compact hyperbolic Riemann surfaces of genus $g\geq 2$, and let $\overline{M}_{g}$ be the…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2024-12-19 Anilatmaja Aryasomayajula , Debasish Sadhukhan