A short note on short pants

DOI10.4153/CMB-2013-026-4MaRDI QIDQ2933768zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Hugo Parlier

Publication date 5 December 2014

Published in Canadian Mathematical Bulletin (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1304.7515

zbMATH Keywords

pants decompositionsclosed geodesicshyperbolic surfaces

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geodesics in global differential geometry (53C22) Compact Riemann surfaces and uniformization (30F10)

Abstract: It is a theorem of Bers that any closed hyperbolic surface admits a pants decomposition consisting of curves of bounded length where the bound only depends on the topology of the surface. The question of the quantification of the optimal constants has been well studied and the best upper bounds to date are linear in genus, a theorem of Buser and Sepp"al"a. The goal of this note is to give a short proof of an linear upper bound which slightly improves the best known bounds.

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