A simpler proof of Mirzakhani's simple curve asymptotics

DOI10.1007/S10711-005-7153-1zbMATH Open1083.57025arXivmath/0512066OpenAlexW2079153627MaRDI QIDQ2572575FDOQ2572575

Igor Rivin

Publication date: 10 November 2005

Published in: Geometriae Dedicata (Search for Journal in Brave)

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.

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

zbMATH Keywords

ergodicitymapping class grouphyperbolic structuressimple curvesMirzakhani

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)

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