Lipnowski–Wright's conjecture on simple and non-simple geodesics

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Let Mg\mathcal{M}_g be the moduli space of closed hyperbolic surfaces of genus gg. For a surface XgX_g and L>0L>0, let N(Xg,L)N(X_g,L) count unoriented primitive closed geodesics of length at most LL, and let Nnseps(Xg,L)N^s_{nsep}(X_g,L) count those that are simple and non-separating; call a geodesic non-simple if it is not simple.

Lipnowski–Wright's conjecture. As gg\to\infty, on most closed hyperbolic surfaces in Mg\mathcal{M}_g, most geodesics of length significantly less than g\sqrt g are simple and non-separating, whereas most geodesics of length significantly greater than g\sqrt g are non-simple.

The conjecture concerns the transition near the scale g\sqrt g between simple non-separating and non-simple closed geodesics on Weil–Petersson-generic large-genus surfaces. The paper's abstract says that its results confirm this conjecture, so its status is recorded as solved.

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Yunhui Wu and Yuhao Xue, “Prime geodesic theorem and closed geodesics for large genus”, arXiv:2209.10415 (2024).

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