Equal angles of intersecting geodesics for every hyperbolic metric

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Authors Arpan Kabiraj

Publication date 16 April 2018

Published in The New York Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1609.05891, http://nyjm.albany.edu/j/2018/24-8.html

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zbMATH Keywords

geometric intersection numberGoldman Lie brackethyperbolic surface

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Moduli of Riemann surfaces, Teichmüller theory (complex-analytic aspects in several variables) (32G15) General geometric structures on low-dimensional manifolds (57M50)

Abstract: We study the geometric properties of the terms of the Goldman bracket between two free homotopy classes of oriented closed curves in a hyperbolic surface. We provide an obstruction for the equality of two terms in the Goldman bracket, namely if two terms in the Goldman bracket are equal to each other then for every hyperbolic metric, the angles corresponding to the intersection points are equal to each other. As a consequence, we obtain an alternative proof of a theorem of Chas, i.e. if one of the free homotopy classes contains a simple representative then the geometric intersection number and the number of terms (counted with multiplicity) in the Goldman bracket are the same.

Review text

The author gives an alternative proof of a theorem of \textit{M. Chas} [Geom. Dedicata 144, 25--60 (2010; Zbl 1186.57015)]: let \(S\) be an oriented surface of negative Euler characteristic, and \(\alpha\), \(\beta\) be two free homotopy classes of oriented closed curves on \(S\). If \(\alpha\) contains a simple closed curve, then the geometric intersection number between \(\alpha\) and \(\beta\) is equal to the number of terms in the Goldman Lie bracket between \(\alpha\) and \(\beta\), counted with multiplicity. In order to do that, he proves the following theorem: for every hyperbolic structure on \(S\), if \(a\) and \(b\) are two oriented closed geodesics with intersection points \(p\) and \(q\) such that the product of the elements \(a_p\), \(b_p\) of \(\pi_1(S;p)\) corresponding to \(a\) and \(b\) is freely homotopic to the product of \(a_q\) and \(b_q\), then the angles between \(a\) and \(b\) at \(p\) and at \(q\) are the same.

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