Counting arcs on hyperbolic surfaces (Q6039654)

Summary: We give the asymptotic growth of the number of arcs of bounded length between boundary components on hyperbolic surfaces with boundary. Specifically, if \(S\) has genus \(g, n\) boundary components and \(p\) punctures, then the number of orthogeodesic arcs in each pure mapping class group orbit of length at most \(L\) is asymptotic to \(L^{6g - 6+2 (n+p)}\) times a constant. We prove an analogous result for arcs between cusps, where we define the length of such an arc to be the length of the sub-arc obtained by removing certain cuspidal regions from the surface.