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Title:
Statistical regularities of self-intersections for geodesics on hyperbolic surfaces: local geometric properties

Speaker:
Jayadev Athreya

Abstract:
In joint work with S. Lalley, J. Sapir, and M. Wroten, we show that the tessellation of a compact, hyperbolic surface induced by a typical long geodesic segment, when properly scaled, looks locally like a Poisson line process. This implies that the global statistics of the tessellation -- for instance, the fraction of triangles -- approach those of the limiting Poisson line process. This work is inspired by the work of Chas and Chas-Lalley.

Link:
http://scgp.stonybrook.edu/video_portal/video.php?id=4558

Workshop:
Simons- Program: Renormalization and universality in Conformal Geometry, Dynamics, Random Processes, and Field Theory