Finite length spectra of random surfaces and their dependence on genus

TL;DR

This paper investigates how the finite length spectra of random surfaces depend on genus, revealing that certain distributions are genus-independent and analyzing the probability distribution of the systole in hyperbolic and Riemannian contexts.

Contribution

It provides asymptotic distributions of curve types on random surfaces and shows their independence from genus, with applications to systole probability distributions.

Findings

Distributions of fixed curve sets are asymptotically genus-independent.

The probability distribution of the systole converges in hyperbolic surfaces as the number of triangles grows.

Bounds are established for systole distributions in Riemannian surfaces.

Abstract

The main goal of this article is to understand how the length spectrum of a random surface depends on its genus. Here a random surface means a surface obtained by randomly gluing together an even number of triangles carrying a fixed metric. Given suitable restrictions on the genus of the surface, we consider the number of appearances of fixed finite sets of combinatorial types of curves. Of any such set we determine the asymptotics of the probability distribution. It turns out that these distributions are independent of the genus in an appropriate sense. As an application of our results we study the probability distribution of the systole of random surfaces in a hyperbolic and a more general Riemannian setting. In the hyperbolic setting we are able to determine the limit of the probability distribution for the number of triangles tending to infinity and in the Riemannian setting we derive bounds.