Random stable commutator length conjecture for closed hyperbolic manifolds

Let MM be a closed hyperbolic dd-manifold. Fix some δ>0\delta>0. Let γ\gamma be a random geodesic of length in [nδ,n+δ][n-\delta,n+\delta] conditioned to be homologically trivial, and let vv be the corresponding conjugacy class in π1(M)\pi_1(M). Random stable commutator length conjecture. For any ϵ>0\epsilon>0 and C>1C>1,

scl(v)log(n)/n(d1)/6ϵ\left|\operatorname{scl}(v)\log(n)/n - (d-1)/6\right| \le \epsilon

with probability 1O(nC)1-O(n^{-C}). This conjecture predicts the asymptotic stable commutator length of random homologically trivial closed geodesics; the source motivates it using the mixing properties of the geodesic flow on closed hyperbolic manifolds and gives no resolution.

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Danny Calegari and Alden Walker, “Random rigidity in the free group”, arXiv:1104.1768 (2013).

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