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SYSTOLIC FILLINGS OF SURFACES

Part of: Graph theory Low-dimensional topology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 August 2018

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BIDYUT SANKI*
Affiliation:
Institute of Mathematical Sciences, CIT Campus, Tharamani, Chennai, 600113, India email [email protected]
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Abstract

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A filling of a closed hyperbolic surface is a set of simple closed geodesics whose complement is a disjoint union of hyperbolic polygons. The systolic length is the length of a shortest essential closed geodesic on the surface. A geodesic is called systolic, if the systolic length is realised by its length. For every $g\geq 2$, we construct closed hyperbolic surfaces of genus $g$ whose systolic geodesics fill the surfaces with complements consisting of only two components. Finally, we remark that one can deform the surfaces obtained to increase the systole.

Keywords

hyperbolic surfacesystolefillingfat graph

MSC classification

Primary: 57M15: Relations with graph theory
Secondary: 05C10: Planar graphs; geometric and topological aspects of graph theory
Type
Research Article
Information
Bulletin of the Australian Mathematical Society , Volume 98 , Issue 3 , December 2018 , pp. 502 - 511
Copyright
© 2018 Australian Mathematical Publishing Association Inc. 

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