The shapes of complementary subsurfaces to simple closed hyperbolic multi-geodesics

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Authors: Francisco Arana-Herrera, Aaron Calderon 

Publication date: 8 August 2022

Abstract: Cutting a hyperbolic surface X along a simple closed multi-geodesic results in a hyperbolic structure on the complementary subsurface. We study the distribution of the shapes of these subsurfaces in moduli space as boundary lengths go to infinity, showing that they equidistribute to the Kontsevich measure on a corresponding moduli space of metric ribbon graphs. In particular, random subsurfaces look like random ribbon graphs, a law which does not depend on the initial choice of X. This result strengthens Mirzakhani's famous simple closed multi-geodesic counting theorems for hyperbolic surfaces.

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