arXiv research

Mirzakhani volumes of moduli spaces are polylogarithmic.

In this note, we answer a question of Mirzakhani on asymptotic behavior of the one-point volume polynomial of moduli spaces of curves. We also present some applications of Mirzakhani's asymptotic formulae of Weil-Petersson volumes.

The paper explores generalizations of Mirzakhani's recursion and computes volumes for physical gravity models.

We give an overview of the proof for Mirzakhani's volume recursion for the Weil-Petersson volumes of the moduli spaces of genus $g$ hyperbolic surfaces with $n$ labeled geodesic boundary components, and her application of this recursion to Witten's conjecture and the study of simple geodesic length spectrum growth rate…

New recursion formula for non-orientable surfaces resolves divergences.

Study volumes of Klein surfaces, extending Mirzakhani's recursion.

Formulae for Masur-Veech volumes and frequencies of geodesics derived from intersection numbers.

Study on hyperbolic surfaces' volumes, proving asymptotic expansion for high genus.

We derive a recursion relation for hyperbolic string vertices and apply it to string field theory.

Moduli spaces of hyperbolic surfaces may be endowed with a symplectic structure via the Weil-Petersson form. Mirzakhani proved that Weil-Petersson volumes exhibit polynomial behaviour and that their coefficients store intersection numbers on moduli spaces of curves. In this survey article, we discuss these results as w…

Given integers $g,n \geq 0$ satisfying $2-2g-n < 0$, let $\mathcal{M}_{g,n}$ be the moduli space of connected, oriented, complete, finite area hyperbolic surfaces of genus $g$ with $n$ cusps. We study the global behavior of the Mirzakhani function $B \colon \mathcal{M}_{g,n} \to \mathbf{R}_{\geq 0}$ which assigns to $X…

We express the Masur-Veech volume and the area Siegel-Veech constant of the moduli space of meromorphic quadratic differential with simple poles as polynomials in the intersection numbers of psi-classes supported on the boundary cycles of the Deligne-Mumford compactification of the moduli space of curves. Our formulae …

This research extends topological recursion to hyperbolic surfaces with tight boundaries and conical defects.

The paper calculates super Weil-Petersson volumes for large genus.

Study shows systole behavior changes significantly for large genus hyperbolic surfaces.

Study on random hyperbolic surfaces with many cusps, focusing on tight geodesics.

The materials accompany a lecture short course presented at the 2011 Park City Mathematics Institute, Graduate Summer School on Moduli Spaces of Riemann Surfaces. The lectures were part of/coordinated with an overall program, including lectures by Ursula Hamenstadt on Teichmueller Theory, Andy Putman on Mapping Class a…

Maryam Mirzakhani (in her doctoral dissertation) has proved the author's conjecture that the number of simple curves of length bounded by L on a hyperbolic surface S is assymptotic to a constant times L to the power d, where d is the dimension of the Teichmuller space of S. In this note we clarify and simplify Mirzakha…

New theorem counts curves on orbifolds.

Recursion formula derived for moduli spaces of hyperbolic surfaces with cone points.

We survey Mirzakhani's work relating to Riemann surfaces, which spans about 20 papers. We target the discussion at a broad audience of non-experts.

Mirzakhani's thesis counts geodesics on hyperbolic surfaces, finding a specific asymptotic formula.

Study counts minimal Lagrangians in hyperbolic surfaces with precise growth rate.

Paper connects volumes of moduli spaces of super Riemann surfaces to integrals over stable Riemann surfaces.

This research connects combinatorial Teichmüller space geometry to Weil-Petersson geometry.

In her seminal 2008 paper, Maryam Mirzakhani showed that the ratio that two topological types of curves occur in is a rational number. In this paper we describe the process by which we obtained experimental evidence that separating and non-separating curves on the surface of genus two occur in the ratio 1 : 48.

We show that the number of square-tiled surfaces of genus $g$, with $n$ marked points, with one or both of its horizontal and vertical foliations belonging to fixed mapping class group orbits, and having at most $L$ squares, is asymptotic to $L^{6g-6+2n}$ times a product of constants appearing in Mirzakhani's count of …

A bijection proves a polynomial volume for genus-0 hyperbolic surfaces with boundaries.

Mirzakhani obtained the asymptotic growth, when $L\to\infty$, of the number of curves in the mapping class group orbit of some given simple curve and with length at most $L$. Years later she extended this result from simple to arbitrary curves. Here we give a short and relative low-tech argument showing how to derive t…

Study shows twist tori equidistribute in moduli space, with other families having singular distributions.

The Teichmuller unipotent flow can be defined concretely on certain moduli spaces of singular flat surfaces by shearing polygonal presentations of the surfaces. Thurston's earthquake flow on moduli spaces of hyperbolic surfaces is more mysterious. Both flows have deep and important connections to other areas of mathema…

Infinite volume moduli spaces of hyperbolic surfaces are redefined with exponential forms.

A 2008 general overview on Weil-Petersson geometry is offered. A preliminary plan for the subsequent CBMS lectures at Central Connecticut State University is included. Mirzakhani's solution of Witten-Kontsevich is not included - this work essentially requires its own lectures. Lectures on Mirzakhani's Witten-Kontsevich…

This paper discovers new identities linking geodesic and orthogeodesic lengths on hyperbolic surfaces.

We generalize the recently discovered relationship between JT gravity and double-scaled random matrix theory to the case that the boundary theory may have time-reversal symmetry and may have fermions with or without supersymmetry. The matching between variants of JT gravity and matrix ensembles depends on the assumed s…

A celebrated result of Mirzakhani states that, if $(S,m)$ is a finite area \emph{orientable} hyperbolic surface, then the number of simple closed geodesics of length less than $L$ on $(S,m)$ is asymptotically equivalent to a positive constant times $L^{\dim\mathcal{ML}(S)}$, where $\mathcal{ML}(S)$ denotes the space of…

GOE statistics emerge from surface moduli space averages.

The dynamics of earthquake flow equidistributes geodesics on hyperbolic surfaces.

Let $S$ be a compact, connected, oriented surface, possibly with boundary, of negative Euler characteristic. In this article we extend Lindenstrauss-Mirzakhani's and Hamenstädt's classification of locally finite mapping class group invariant ergodic measures on the space of measured laminations $\mathcal{M}\mathcal{L}(…

Study on lengths of random multicurves on hyperbolic surfaces.

For a non-uniform lattice in SL(2,R), we consider excursions in cusp neighborhoods of a random geodesic on the corresponding finite area hyperbolic surface or orbifold. We prove a strong law for a certain partial sum involving these excursions. This generalizes a theorem of Diamond and Vaaler for continued fractions. I…

New volume functions for random hyperbolic surfaces link to spectral gaps.

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 surfaces with boundary.

Inspired by results of Eskin and Mirzakhani counting closed geodesics of length $\le L$ in the moduli space of a fixed closed surface, we consider a similar question in the $Out(F_r)$ setting. The Eskin-Mirzakhani result can be equivalently stated in terms of counting the number of conjugacy classes (within the mapping…

We complete the classification of rank two affine manifolds in the moduli space of translation surfaces in genus three. Combined with a recent result of Mirzakhani and Wright, this completes the classification of higher rank affine manifolds in genus three.

We introduce a new method of calculating intersections on \bar{M}_{g,n}, using localization of equivariant cohomology. As an application, we give a proof of Mirzakhani's recursion relation for calculating intersections of mixed psi and kappa_1 classes.

A translation structure equips a Riemann surface with a singular flat metric. Not much is known about the shape of a random translation surface. We compute an upper bound on the expected value of the covering radius of a translation surface in any stratum H_1(kappa). The covering radius of a translation surface is the …

Lengths of simple closed geodesics on hyperbolic surfaces in prescribed homology classes