JournalsjemsVol. 24, No. 9pp. 3059–3108

Effective counting of simple closed geodesics on hyperbolic surfaces

  • Alex Eskin

    University of Chicago, USA

  • Maryam Mirzakhani

    Stanford University, USA

  • Amir Mohammadi

    University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, USA
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Abstract

We prove a quantitative estimate, with a power saving error term, for the number of simple closed geodesics of length at most on a compact surface equipped with a Riemannian metric of negative curvature. The proof relies on the exponential mixing rate for the Teichmüller geodesic flow.

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Alex Eskin, Maryam Mirzakhani, Amir Mohammadi, Effective counting of simple closed geodesics on hyperbolic surfaces. J. Eur. Math. Soc. 24 (2022), no. 9, pp. 3059–3108

DOI 10.4171/JEMS/1144