Study counts ergodic measures in surface lamination strata.
problem Counting ergodic measures in surface lamination strata.
method Determined through analysis of geodesic laminations.
result Number of ergodic measures identified in each stratum.
Paper proves uniqueness of Ricci flows from nonatomic measures on surfaces.
problem Existence and uniqueness of Ricci flows from nonatomic Radon measures.
method Combining previous work, established existence and proved uniqueness.
result Uniqueness of Ricci flows from nonatomic Radon measures on Riemann surfaces.
New weighted surface area measures for convex bodies with applications.
problem Generalizing surface area measures to weighted Borel measures.
method Formulating and analyzing weighted surface area measures, proving integral formula and Bézout-type inequality.
result New integral formula for mixed measure of three bodies, generalizing Bézout-type inequality.
New measure defined on surface strata, invariant under scaling.
problem Defining an invariant measure on moduli spaces of dilation surfaces.
method Novel computation of cohomology with coefficients for mapping class group.
result SL(2,R)-invariant Lebesgue class measure on strata.
Study on convergence of Narasimhan-Simha measures on degenerating families of Riemann surfaces.
problem Analyzing the convergence of measures on degenerating families of Riemann surfaces.
method Hybrid space approach, using metrized curve complex and Hermitian pairing.
result Convergence of measures on hybrid space, extending to singular curves.
Stationary measures on hyperbolic surfaces with cusps are singular and stable under quasi-symmetries.
problem Understanding stationary measures on hyperbolic surfaces with cusps.
method Analyzing exponential decay of cusp excursions and proving quasi-symmetry stability.
result Stationary measures on hyperbolic surfaces with cusps are quasi-symmetrically stable and singular.
The study shows how to measure translation surfaces with short saddle connections.
problem Measuring the probability of surfaces with short saddle connections.
method Using the multi-scale compactification of strata and algebraicity results.
result Proves strong regularity for invariant measures on translation surfaces.
Since their introduction by Thurston, measured geodesic laminations on hyperbolic surfaces occur in many contexts. In [Mor], we have introduced a notion of flat laminations on surfaces endowed with a half-translation structure (that is a singular flat surface with holonomy {+/-Id}, similar to geodesic laminations on hy…
Proves uniqueness of measure of maximal entropy for geodesic flows on surfaces.
problem Proving uniqueness of measure of maximal entropy for geodesic flows on surfaces.
method Analyzes geodesic flows on closed orientable C^∞ surfaces, proving uniqueness of measure of maximal entropy and at most one SRB measure.
result Proves uniqueness of measure of maximal entropy for geodesic flows on surfaces, covering previous results and new examples.
We prove a compactness theorem for embedded measured hyperbolic Riemann surface laminations in a compact almost complex manifold (X,J). To prove compactness result, we show that there is a suitable topology on the space of measured Riemann surface laminations induced by Levy-Prokhorov metric. As an application of th…
Study stationary measures and orbit closures for non-abelian actions on surfaces.
problem Classify stationary measures and orbit closures for non-abelian action on a surface.
method Use a finite verifiable average growth condition and results from Brown and Rodriguez Hertz.
result Show that under certain conditions, the only nonatomic stationary measure is the given smooth invariant measure, and every orbit closure is either finite or dense.
The paper connects Riemann surface length spectra to Brownian loop measures.
problem Understanding the length spectra of Riemann surfaces with additional cusps.
method Using the Brownian loop measure to relate length spectra of Riemann surfaces with and without additional cusps.
result Expressed the total mass of Brownian loops in terms of the length of geodesic representatives.
Uniform convergence of metrics on surfaces with bounded curvature measures proved.
problem Proving uniform convergence of metrics on Alexandrov surfaces with bounded integral curvature.
method Weak convergence of measures and analytic approximation of metrics.
result Uniform convergence of metrics on Alexandrov surfaces proved.
Classifies orbit closures in translation surface strata.
problem Classifying orbit closures in translation surface strata.
method Classification of extGL(2,R) orbit closures. result Applications to joinings of certain Masur-Veech measures.
Given a measured lamination on a finite area hyperbolic surface we consider a natural measure Mon the real line obtained by taking the push-forward of the volume measure of the unit tangent bundle of the surface under an intersection function associated with the lamination. We show that the measure M gives summation id…
Study magnetic Laplacians on hyperbolic surfaces, revealing three regimes of eigenfunction behavior.
problem Investigate semiclassical defect measures of magnetic Laplacians on hyperbolic surfaces.
method Analyze eigenfunctions in low, critical, and high energy regimes using quantum ergodicity and equidistribution.
result Eigenfunctions in different regimes converge to distinct measures: invariant, Liouville, or equidistributed.
The purpose of this paper is to study the action of the mapping class group on the moduli space of representations of the fundamental group of a non-orientable surface into SU(2). The action is shown to be ergodic with respect to a natural measure. This measure is defined using the push-forward measure associated to a …
Study dihedral spherical surfaces and their foliations.
problem Characterize dihedral spherical surfaces and their foliations.
method Define and analyze dihedral surfaces and their foliations, introduce geometric decompositions and deformations.
result Determine the dimension of the moduli space for dihedral surfaces.
Study measures volume of foliations on surfaces, finding integrability range.
problem Volume of combinatorial unit ball of measured foliations on bordered surfaces.
method Analyzes combinatorial moduli spaces and Kontsevich measure.
result Determines range of integrability for (BΣmcomb)s. Study critical exponents on hyperbolic surfaces with long boundaries using Weil-Petersson measures.
problem Analyzing critical exponents on hyperbolic surfaces with long boundaries.
method Using spine graph construction and comparing normalized Weil-Petersson and Kontsevich measures.
result Asymptotic convergence-in-mean result of normalized Weil-Petersson measures to normalized Kontsevich measures.
The Heights Theorem is extended to all Riemann surfaces with a first kind fundamental group.
problem Establishing the Heights Theorem for all Riemann surfaces.
method Extending the theorem to all surfaces with a first kind fundamental group, using measured laminations and straightening horizontal trajectories.
result The horizontal map is injective for arbitrary Riemann surfaces with a conformal hyperbolic metric.
Characterizes closures of mapping class group orbits on non-orientable surfaces.
problem Understanding closures of orbits in Teichmüller spaces for non-orientable surfaces.
method Analyzes closures in ML and PML for measured laminations, projective measured laminations, and points. result Characterizes closures of weighted two-sided curves in ML. Study shows infinite-dimensional third bounded cohomology for non-orientable surfaces.
problem Understanding the third bounded cohomology of non-orientable surfaces.
method Analyzing measure-preserving homeomorphisms of non-orientable surfaces.
result Third bounded cohomology is infinite-dimensional.
A new state-sum formula for the evaluation of the Yang-Mills measure in the Kauffman bracket skein algebra of a closed surface is derived. The formula extends the Kauffman bracket to diagrams that lie in surfaces other than the plane. It also extends Turaev's shadow world invariant of links in a circle bundle over a su…
Calegari, Marques, and Neves count minimal surfaces in hyperbolic manifolds.
problem Counting minimal surfaces in hyperbolic manifolds.
method Using a laminar measure concept.
result An idea of a proof for counting minimal surfaces.
Paper introduces hybrid curves moduli space and canonical measures.
problem Asymptotic geometry of Riemann surfaces and their moduli spaces.
method Definition of hybrid curves and canonical measures.
result Continuous variation of canonical measures over hybrid curves moduli space.
New surface area measures defined for ball-convex bodies, leading to entropy and inequalities.
problem Defining and analyzing surface area measures for ball-convex bodies.
method Introducing Lp relative surface areas, proving invariance and inequalities, and using geometric interpretations. result Established inequalities and a new notion of entropy for ball-convex bodies.
Maps and measures on surfaces link best Lipschitz and least gradient functions.
problem Analyzing maps between surfaces and their geometric properties.
method Duality between best Lipschitz and least gradient maps, geodesic laminations, and transverse measures.
result The infinity harmonic map defines a geodesic lamination and the least gradient map defines a transverse measure.
Solves Ricci flow on Riemann surfaces with measure initial data.
problem Existence and smoothness of Ricci flow on Riemann surfaces.
method Formulation and solution of existence problem using Ricci flow.
result New examples of nongradient expanding Ricci solitons.
Consider a closed marked flat surface S of genus g≥2 and area 1 and its universal covering S~. We show that the measure class of the Hausdorff measure of the Gromov boundary of S~ uniquely determines S.
New illumination bodies defined for ball-convex shapes, proving convexity and establishing surface area measures.
problem Characterizing properties of ball-convex shapes.
method Introducing illumination bodies and weighted illumination bodies, proving convexity, and establishing surface area measures.
result Illumination bodies are convex and provide surface area measures for ball-convex shapes.
Geodesics of the same type on curved surfaces are randomly distributed.
problem Distribution of geodesics of the same type on negatively curved surfaces.
method Asymptotic equidistribution with respect to a measure on the unit tangent bundle.
result Geodesics of the same type are asymptotically equidistributed with respect to a measure mS. We calculate a projective space of essential measured laminations in a surface pair, which will be used in another paper to help describe spaces of "finite height laminations."
Study on random surfaces in hyperbolic 3-manifolds, focusing on geometric and topological properties.
problem Distribution of nearly geodesic surfaces in hyperbolic 3-manifolds.
method Invariant measures on the Grassmann bundle G(M) derived from limits of random minimal surfaces.
result Topological limiting measures are totally scarring if M contains a totally geodesic subsurface, while geometrical limiting measures are not.
Fix a translation surface X, and consider the measures on X coming from averaging the uniform measures on all the saddle connections of length at most R. Then as R→∞, the weak limit of these measures exists and is equal to the Lebesgue measure on X. We also show that any weak limit of a subsequence of …
Study shows limits of Fuchsian surfaces in hyperbolic 3-manifolds.
problem Understanding the limits of Fuchsian surfaces in hyperbolic 3-manifolds.
method Analyzing asymptotically Fuchsian maps and their induced probability area measures.
result Weak-* limits of induced area measures are convex combinations of Haar and totally geodesic surface measures.
Random covers of hyperbolic surfaces follow a specific probability measure.
problem Understanding the distribution of random covers of hyperbolic surfaces.
method Analyzing random covers subject to specific group isomorphism conditions.
result Asymptotic distribution of random covers according to a probability measure on moduli space of metric graphs.
Sophie Germain's mean curvature deserves recognition as a surface shape measure.
problem Identifying the shape of a surface using curvature measurements.
method Characterizing surface shape through principal curvatures and their averages.
result Mean curvature should be named after Sophie Germain.
Study foliations at infinity and constant mean curvature surfaces in quasi-Fuchsian manifolds.
problem Understanding foliations at infinity and constant mean curvature surfaces in quasi-Fuchsian manifolds.
method Using measured foliations and quasi-Fuchsian manifolds, proving the existence and uniqueness of foliations by constant mean curvature surfaces.
result For quasi-Fuchsian manifolds close to the Fuchsian locus, measured foliations at infinity can be uniquely realized and foliated by constant mean curvature surfaces.
Explains the history and challenges of minimal surfaces.
problem Understanding the regularity of minimal surfaces.
method Historical overview and technical analysis.
result Outlines the evolution and current state of minimal surfaces.
Study transverse measures on infinite type hyperbolic surfaces.
problem Characterize the cone of transverse measures on infinite type hyperbolic surfaces.
method Use inverse limits and geodesic laminations to describe and construct cones of transverse measures.
result Explicit descriptions and bases of cones of transverse measures exist for many laminations.
Loewner inequality proven for curved surfaces.
problem Proving Loewner's inequality for nonpositively curved surfaces.
method Combining Gauss-Bonnet formula with averaging argument using geodesic flow invariance.
result Found a disk with large total curvature around its center, leading to large area.
Entropy study of geodesic flow on convex projective surfaces.
problem Entropy of Sinai-Ruelle-Bowen measure on convex projective surfaces.
method Analysis of Hilbert area and Blaschke metric.
result Entropy tends to zero if and only if the Hilbert area tends to infinity.
Refines knot defect measurement in 3D and 4D.
problem Measuring how far knots are from being alternating.
method Extends spanning surface defect to 4-ball, making comparisons and proving formulas.
result Connected sum formula proven.
We study the generic invariant probability measures for the geodesic flow on connected complete nonpositively curved manifolds. Under a mild technical assumption, we prove that ergodicity is a generic property in the set of probability measures defined on the unit tangent bundle of the manifold and supported by traject…
We investigate specific examples of locally-defined real vector-fields on strata of translation surfaces. Integrating SL(2,R)-loci of Veech surfaces along these vector-fields yield interesting new examples of horocyle-invariant ergodic measures. These measures are supported on closed immersed manifolds with boundary th…
We establish a Cauchy type inequality for the geometric intersection number between two 1-dimensional submanifolds in a surface. Some of the basic results in Thurston's theory of measured laminations on surfaces are derived from the Cauchy inequality.
New surfaces with special geodesic and horocycle behaviors discovered.
problem Understanding geodesic and horocycle dynamics on hyperbolic surfaces.
method Constructing geometrically infinite hyperbolic surfaces with tailored recurrence properties.
result First examples of non-trivial minimal horocyclic orbit closures and infinite locally-finite conservative horocyclic invariant measures.