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SYSTOLIC FILLINGS OF SURFACES

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 August 2018

BIDYUT SANKI*
Affiliation:
Institute of Mathematical Sciences, CIT Campus, Tharamani, Chennai, 600113, India email bidyut.iitk7@gmail.com
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A filling of a closed hyperbolic surface is a set of simpleclosed geodesics whose complement is a disjoint union of hyperbolicpolygons. The systolic length is the length of a shortestessential closed geodesic on the surface. A geodesic is called systolic, ifthe 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 withcomplements consisting of only two components. Finally, we remark that onecan deform the surfaces obtained to increase the systole.

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