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A property of closed geodesics on hyperbolic surfaces

  • Max Neumann-Coto

    Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico

  • Peter Scott

    University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA
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Abstract

We study closed geodesics on hyperbolic surfaces and give bounds for their angles of intersection and self-intersection, as well as for the size of the -gons that they form, depending only on the lengths of the geodesics.

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Max Neumann-Coto, Peter Scott, A property of closed geodesics on hyperbolic surfaces. Groups Geom. Dyn. 17 (2023), no. 1, pp. 1–33

DOI 10.4171/GGD/699