Counting curves, and the stable length of currents

DOI10.4171/JEMS/953zbMATH Open1439.53040arXiv1612.05980OpenAlexW2965708958MaRDI QIDQ2178262FDOQ2178262

Hugo Parlier, Viveka Erlandsson, Juan Souto

Publication date: 7 May 2020

Published in: Journal of the European Mathematical Society (JEMS) (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Let $gamm{a}_0$ be a curve on a surface $Sigma$ of genus $g$ and with $r$ boundary components and let $p{i}_1(Sigma)curvearrowrightX$ be a discrete and cocompact action on some metric space. We study the asymptotic behavior of the number of curves $gamma$ of type $gamm{a}_0$ with translation length at most $L$ on $X$. For example, as an application, we derive that for any finite generating set $S$ of $p{i}_1(Sigma)$ the limit ${\displaystyle }$lim_{L oinfty}frac 1{L^{6g-6+2r}}{gamma ext{ of type }gamma_0 ext{ with }S ext{-translation length}le L}${\displaystyle }$ exists and is positive. The main new technical tool is that the function which associates to each curve its stable length with respect to the action on $X$ extends to a (unique) continuous and homogenous function on the space of currents. We prove that this is indeed the case for any action of a torsion free hyperbolic group.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1612.05980

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zbMATH Keywords

currentsgrowth of geodesics on surfaceshyperbolic groups, genus, geodesic metric space

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Dynamical systems involving homeomorphisms and diffeomorphisms of planes and surfaces (37E30) Geodesics in global differential geometry (53C22) Deformations of submanifolds and subspaces (32G10)

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