A simpler proof of Mirzakhani's simple curve asymptotics

DOI10.1007/S10711-005-7153-1MaRDI QIDQ2572575zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Igor Rivin

Publication date 10 November 2005

Published in Geometriae Dedicata (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0512066

zbMATH Keywords

ergodicityhyperbolic structuresmapping class groupMirzakhanisimple curves

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: Maryam Mirzakhani (in her doctoral dissertation) has proved the author's conjecture that the number of simple curves of length bounded by L on a hyperbolic surface S is assymptotic to a constant times L to the power d, where d is the dimension of the Teichmuller space of S. In this note we clarify and simplify Mirzakhani's argument.

Review text

In a hyperbolic surface \(S\), the number of simple closed geodesics of length bounded by \(L\) is asymptotic to a constant times \(L^{\dim T(S)}\), where \(T(S)\) is the Teichmüller space of \(S\). This result was proved by Maryam Mirzakhani. This paper simplifies her proof.

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• Statistical regularities of self-intersection counts for geodesics on negatively curved surfaces
• Mirzakhani's curve counting and geodesic currents
• McShane-type identities for affine deformations
• Counting geodesics, Teichmüller space, and random hyperbolic surfaces
• Counting One-Sided Simple Closed Geodesics on Fuchsian Thrice Punctured Projective Planes
• Simple Closed Geodesics on Regular Tetrahedra in Spaces of Constant Curvature
• Geodesics with one self-intersection, and other stories
• Growth in free groups (and other stories) -- twelve years later
• Geometric limits and length bounds on curves
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