Pants decompositions of random surfaces

DOI10.1007/S00039-011-0131-XzbMATH Open1242.32007arXiv1011.0612OpenAlexW2041307487MaRDI QIDQ659925FDOQ659925

Authors: Larry Guth, Hugo Parlier, Robert Young 

Publication date: 24 January 2012

Published in: Geometric and Functional Analysis. GAFA (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Our goal is to show, in two different contexts, that "random" surfaces have large pants decompositions. First we show that there are hyperbolic surfaces of genus $g$ for which any pants decomposition requires curves of total length at least $g^{7/6-epsilon}$. Moreover, we prove that this bound holds for most metrics in the moduli space of hyperbolic metrics equipped with the Weil-Petersson volume form. We then consider surfaces obtained by randomly gluing euclidean triangles (with unit side length) together and show that these surfaces have the same property.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1011.0612

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zbMATH Keywords

moduli spacesRiemann surfacescombinatorial surfacessimple closed geodesicsBers' constanttotal pants lengthTeichmüller spaces

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Combinatorial probability (60C05) Teichmüller theory for Riemann surfaces (30F60) 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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