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New metric on geodesic currents connects different surface genera.

The study proves nearly geodesic surfaces are filling in hyperbolic 3-manifolds.

New approach finds minima of geodesic lengths for non-uniform fillings.

Paper finds shortest geodesic paths on hyperbolic surfaces.

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.

Study minima of geodesic lengths for specific curves on surfaces.

Study on geodesics on high genus expander surfaces, proving filling and non-simple properties.

The paper studies the shortest closed multi-geodesics on hyperbolic surfaces as their genus grows.

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 of the surface. This answers a question of Ying-Qing Wu.

This paper concerns with a rigidity of core geodesics in hyperbolic Dehn fillings. For instance, for an $n$-cusped hyperbolic $3$-manifold $M$ having non-symmetric cusp shapes, we show any Dehn filling of $M$ with sufficiently large coefficient is uniquely determined by the product of the holonomies of its core geodesi…

New rays on infinite type surfaces help understand their boundaries.

Let $Σ$ be a compact, orientable surface of negative Euler characteristic, and let $h$ be a complete hyperbolic metric on $Σ$. A geodesic curve $γ$ in $Σ$ is filling, if it cuts the surface into topological disks and annuli. We propose an efficient algorithm for deciding whether a geodesic curve, represented as a word …

Let $S$ be a Riemann surface with a puncture $x$. Let $a\subset S$ be a simple closed geodesic. In this paper, we show that for any pseudo-Anosov map $f$ of $S$ that is isotopic to the identity on $S\cup \{x\}$, $(a, f^m(a))$ fills $S$ for $m\geq 3$. We also study the cases of $0<m\leq 2$ and show that if $(a,f^2(a))$ …

Study finds minimum lengths of curves on a one-holed torus.

A projection maps geodesic currents to Teichmüller space.

Infinite clique of rays in plane minus Cantor set.

Let $S$ be a Riemann surface of type $(p,n)$ with $3p+n>4$ and $n\geq 1$. Let $α_1,α_2\subset S$ be two simple closed geodesics such that $\{α_1, α_2\}$ fills $S$. It was shown by Thurston that most maps obtained through Dehn twists along $α_1$ and $α_2$ are pseudo-Anosov. Let $a$ be a puncture. In this paper, we study…

Optimal geodesics connect boundary points in Teichmüller space.

Unique CaTherine wheel found for LQG geodesic tree.

This paper classifies Dehn fillings of a specific 3-manifold using invariant properties.

We define for each g>=2 and k>=0 a set M_{g,k} of orientable hyperbolic 3-manifolds with $k$ toric cusps and a connected totally geodesic boundary of genus g. Manifolds in M_{g,k} have Matveev complexity g+k and Heegaard genus g+1, and their homology, volume, and Turaev-Viro invariants depend only on g and k. In additi…

We construct Weil-Petersson (WP) geodesic rays with minimal filling non-uniquely ergodic ending lamination which are recurrent to a compact subset of the moduli space of Riemann surfaces. This construction shows that an analogue of the Masur's criterion for Teichmüller geodesics does not hold for WP geodesics.

For any geodesic current we associated a quasi-metric space. For a subclass of geodesic currents, called filling, it defines a metric and we study the critical exponent associated to this space. We show that is is equal to the exponential growth rate of the intersection function for closed curves.

We extend Thurston's metric to projective filling currents, embedding Teichmüller space into the larger space.

A pair of distinct free homotopy classes of closed curves in an orientable surface $F$ with negative Euler characteristic is said to be length equivalent if for any hyperbolic structure on $F$, the length of the geodesic representative of one class is equal to the length of the geodesic representative of the other clas…

Let M be a hyperbolic 3-manifold with nonempty totally geodesic boundary. We prove that there are upper and lower bounds on the diameter of the skinning map of M that depend only on the volume of the hyperbolic structure with totally geodesic boundary, answering a question of Y. Minsky. This is proven via a filling the…

Counting hyperbolic multi-geodesics with individual component lengths.

Hass and Scott's example of a 4-valent graph on the 3-punctured sphere that cannot be realized by geodesics in any metric of negative curvature is generalized to impossible configurations filling surfaces of genus $n$ with $k$ punctures for any $n$ and $k$.

Improved bounds on curve filling areas in Banach spaces, leading to rigidity of Pu's inequality.

Effective drilling and filling bounds for hyperbolic 3-manifolds.

We prove that every Riemannian metric on the 2-disc such that all its geodesics are minimal, is a minimal filling of its boundary (within the class of fillings homeomorphic to the disc). This improves an earlier result of the author by removing the assumption that the boundary is convex. More generally, we prove this r…

This paper classifies minimal complexity hyperbolic 3-manifolds with geodesic boundaries.

Estimates the number of closed curves on surfaces with power-saving error terms.

A pair $(α, β)$ of simple closed geodesics on a closed and oriented hyperbolic surface $M_g$ of genus $g$ is called a filling pair if the complementary components of $α\cupβ$ in $M_g$ are simply connected. The length of a filling pair is defined to be the sum of their individual lengths. In \cite{Aou}, Aougab-Huang con…

The paper finds bounds on shortest dense curves on surfaces.

We introduce and study some deformations of complete finite-volume hyperbolic four-manifolds that may be interpreted as four-dimensional analogues of Thurston's hyperbolic Dehn filling. We construct in particular an analytic path of complete, finite-volume cone four-manifolds $M_t$ that interpolates between two hyperbo…

In this paper we deepen the analysis of certain classes M_{g,k} of hyperbolic 3-manifolds that were introduced in a previous work by B. Martelli, C. Petronio and the author. Each element of M_{g,k} is an oriented complete finite-volume hyperbolic 3-manifold with compact connected geodesic boundary of genus g and k cusp…

This paper gives a quantitative version of Thurston's hyperbolic Dehn surgery theorem. Applications include the first universal bounds on the number of non-hyperbolic Dehn fillings on a cusped hyperbolic 3-manifold, and estimates on the changes in volume and core geodesic length during hyperbolic Dehn filling. The proo…

Geodesically convex functions are continuous on Riemannian manifolds.

Mazur's knot exterior is described by a single regular ideal octahedron, leading to hyperbolic structures related to the Whitehead link.

In this paper we construct and study isoperimetric functions at infinity for Hadamard manifolds. These quasi-isometry invariants give a measure of the spread of geodesics in such a manifold.

We prove the filling area conjecture in the hyperelliptic case. In particular, we establish the conjecture for all genus 1 fillings of the circle, extending P. Pu's result in genus 0. We translate the problem into a question about closed ovalless real surfaces. The conjecture then results from a combination of two ingr…

In this work, we study the cellular decomposition of $S$ induced by a filling pair of curves $v$ and $w$, $Dec_{v,w}(S) = S - (v \cup w)$, and its connection to the distance function $d(v,w)$ in the curve graph of a closed orientable surface $S$ of genus $g$. Efficient geodesics were introduced by the first author in j…

Small sets of systoles fill hyperbolic surfaces of large genus.

Any one-cusped hyperbolic manifold M with an unknotting tunnel tau is obtained by Dehn filling a cusp of a two-cusped hyperbolic manifold. In the case where M is obtained by "generic" Dehn filling, we prove that tau is isotopic to a geodesic, and characterize whether tau is isotopic to an edge in the canonical decompos…

Study geodesics of meromorphic connections on Riemann surfaces.

Geodesic currents on surfaces have comparable metrics in thick regions.

Every closed geodesic $γ$ on a surface has a canonically associated knot $\widehatγ$ in the projective unit tangent bundle. We study, for $γ$ filling, the volume of the associated knot complement with respect to its unique complete hyperbolic metric. We provide a lower bound for the volume relative to the number of hom…