Currents on cusped hyperbolic surfaces and denseness property (Q2102731)

Summary: The space \(\operatorname{GC} ({\Sigma})\) of geodesic currents on a hyperbolic surface \(\Sigma\) can be considered as a completion of the set of weighted closed geodesics on \(\Sigma\) when \(\Sigma\) is compact, since the set of rational geodesic currents on \(\Sigma \), which correspond to weighted closed geodesics, is a dense subset of \(\operatorname{GC} ({\Sigma})\). We prove that even when \(\Sigma\) is a cusped hyperbolic surface with finite area, \(\operatorname{GC} ({\Sigma})\) has the denseness property of rational geodesic currents, which correspond not only to weighted closed geodesics on \(\Sigma\) but also to weighted geodesics connecting two cusps. In addition, we present an example in which a sequence of weighted closed geodesics converges to a geodesic connecting two cusps, which is an obstruction for the intersection number to extend continuously to \(\operatorname{GC} ({\Sigma})\). To construct the example, we use the notion of subset currents. Finally, we prove that the space of subset currents on a cusped hyperbolic surface has the denseness property of rational subset currents.