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On second eigenvalues of closed hyperbolic surfaces for large genus

Geometric Topology 2025-06-06 v2 Differential Geometry Spectral Theory

Abstract

In this article, we study the second eigenvalues of closed hyperbolic surfaces for large genus. We show that for every closed hyperbolic surface XgX_g of genus gg (g3)(g\geq 3), up to uniform positive constants multiplications, the second eigenvalue λ2(Xg)\lambda_2(X_g) of XgX_g is greater than L2(Xg)g2\frac{\mathcal{L}_2(X_g)}{g^2} and less than L2(Xg)\mathcal{L}_2(X_g); moreover these two bounds are optimal as gg\to \infty. Here L2(Xg)\mathcal{L}_2(X_g) is the shortest length of simple closed multi-geodesics separating XgX_g into three components. Furthermore, we also investigate the quantity λ2(Xg)L2(Xg)\frac{\lambda_2(X_g)}{\mathcal{L}_2(X_g)} for random hyperbolic surfaces of large genus. We show that as gg\to \infty, a generic hyperbolic surface XgX_g has λ2(Xg)L2(Xg)\frac{\lambda_2(X_g)}{\mathcal{L}_2(X_g)} uniformly comparable to 1ln(g)\frac{1}{\ln(g)}.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.2207.12919,
  title  = {On second eigenvalues of closed hyperbolic surfaces for large genus},
  author = {Yuxin He and Yunhui Wu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2207.12919},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

Journal of Differential Geometry, to appear, 38 pages, 6 figures, comments are welcome

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