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We prove a quantitative estimate with a power saving error term for the number of filling closed geodesics of a given topological type and length $\leq L$ on an arbitrary closed, orientable, negatively curved surface. More generally, we…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2021-06-23 Francisco Arana-Herrera

We consider the problem of finding embedded closed geodesics on the two-sphere with an incomplete metric defined outside a point. Various techniques including curve shortening methods are used.

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Paul Norbury , J. Hyam Rubinstein

We study the curve shortening flow on Riemann surfaces with finitely many conformal conical singularities. If the initial curve is passing through the singular points, then the evolution is governed by a degenerate quasilinear parabolic…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-05-28 Nikolaos Roidos , Andreas Savas-Halilaj

We show that if two closed hyperbolic surfaces (not necessarily orientable or even connected) have the same Laplace spectrum, then for every length they have the same number of orientation-preserving geodesics and the same number of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-04-08 Peter G. Doyle , Juan Pablo Rossetti

We consider systems of simple closed curves on surfaces and their total number of intersection points, their so-called crossing number. For a fixed number of curves, we aim to minimise the crossing number. We determine the minimal crossing…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2024-03-11 Jasmin Jörg

In a previous work of the authors, a result to algorithmically compute the topology types of the level curves of an algebraic surface, is given. From this result, here we derive applications based on level curves to determine some…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2007-10-18 J. G. Alcazar , J. R. Sendra

We give a lower bound for the widths of the collars of certain short partial pants decomposition of the surface. Then we apply this to obtain upper bounds of the renormalized volume of certain Schottky manifolds in terms of the hyperbolic…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-09-18 Dídac Martínez-Granado , Franco Vargas Pallete

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

Fixed a point O on a non-singular surface S and a complete mO-primary ideal I in its local ring, the curves on the surface X obtained by blowing-up I are studied in terms of the base points of I. Criteria for the principality of these…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Jesus Fernandez-Sanchez

We give an identity involving sums of functions of lengths of simple closed geodesics, known as a McShane identity, on any non-orientable hyperbolic surface with boundary which generalises Mirzakhani's identities on orientable hyperbolic…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-06-12 Paul Norbury

We give the asymptotic growth of the number of (multi-)arcs of bounded length between boundary components on complete finite-area hyperbolic surfaces with boundary. Specifically, if $S$ has genus $g$, $n$ boundary components and $p$…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2020-12-01 Nick Bell

Structurally stable (rough) flows on surfaces have only finitely many singularities and finitely many closed orbits, all of which are hyperbolic, and they have no trajectories joining saddle points. The violation of the last property leads…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2017-06-07 Vladislav Kruglov , Dmitry Malyshev , Olga Pochinka

In this paper we review some author's results about Weingarten surfaces in Euclidean space $\r^3$ and hyperbolic space $\h^3$. We stress here in the search of examples of linear Weingarten surfaces that satisfy a certain geometric property.…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-06-19 Rafael López

We study geodesics on a planar Riemann surface of infinite type having a single infinite end. Of particular interest is the class of geodesics that go out the infinite end in a most efficient manner. We investigate properties of these…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2008-06-30 Andrew Haas , Perry Susskind

We provide analogues for non-orientable surfaces with or without boundary or punctures of several basic theorems in the setting of the Thurston theory of surfaces which were developed so far only in the case of orientable surfaces. Namely,…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2013-10-02 Athanase Papadopoulos , Robert C. Penner

We are concerned with orderable groups and particularly those with orderings invariant not only under multiplication, but also under a given automorphism or family of automorphisms. Several applications to topology are given: we prove that…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2014-10-01 Dale Rolfsen , Bert Wiest

The family of Euclidean triangles having some fixed perimeter and area can be identified with a subset of points on a nonsingular cubic plane curve, i.e., an elliptic curve; furthermore, if the perimeter and the square of the area are…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2015-05-13 Nicolas Brody , Jordan Schettler

For hyperbolic surfaces with geodesic boundary, we study the orthosystole, i.e. the length of a shortest essential arc from the boundary to the boundary. We recover and extend work by Bavard completely characterizing the surfaces maximizing…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-07-31 Ara Basmajian , Federica Fanoni

We introduce a new type of boundary for proper geodesic spaces, called the Morse boundary, that is constructed with rays that identify the "hyperbolic directions" in that space. This boundary is a quasi-isometry invariant and thus produces…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2023-06-27 Matthew Cordes

Let $S$ be a complete flat surface, such as the Euclidean plane. We obtain direct characterizations of the connected components of the space of all curves on $S$ which start and end at given points in given directions, and whose curvatures…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2016-02-11 Nicolau C. Saldanha , Pedro Zühlke