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Peter Buser

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arXiv2025

Toponogov comparison and the collar theorem for complete surfaces with an appendix on the level sets of distance functions

In the 1970s, the collar theorem was proven, establishing the existence of uniform tubular neighborhoods of simple closed geodesics on compact surfaces, whose widths depend only on the lengths of the geodesics and the lower bound of the curvature, but not on the surface. In this paper, we improve this result by eliminating the compactness hypothesis. To achieve this result, we needed to prove new Toponogov-type triangle comparison theorems. We also add a new theorem to the literature on the rectifiabilty of the level sets of the distance function, with the corollary that on thin infinite cylinders with geodesic boundary all sets of constant distance to the boundary are simple closed Lipschitz curves.

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arXiv2024

Translation surfaces with large systoles

In this paper we continue to investigate the systolic landscape of translation surfaces started in [CHMW]. We show that there is an infinite sequence of surfaces $(S_{g_k})_k$ of genus $g_k$, where $g_k \to \infty$ with large systoles. On the other hand we show that for hyperelliptic surfaces we can find a suitable homology basis, where a large number of loops that induce the basis are short.

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arXiv2023

Some counterexamples in surface homology

We present four counterexamples in surface homology. The first example shows that even if the loops inducing a homology basis intersect each other at most once, they still may separate the surface into two parts. The other three examples show some difficulties in working with minimal homology bases.

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arXiv2022

Short homology bases for hyperelliptic hyperbolic surfaces

Given a hyperelliptic hyperbolic surface $S$ of genus $g \geq 2$, we find bounds on the lengths of homologically independent loops on $S$. As a consequence, we show that for any $\lambda \in (0,1)$ there exists a constant $N(\lambda)$ such that every such surface has at least $\lceil \lambda \cdot \frac{2}{3} g \rceil$ homologically independent loops of length at most $N(\lambda)$, extending the result in [Mu] and [BPS]. This allows us to extend the constant upper bound obtained in [Mu] on the minimal length of non-zero period lattice vectors of hyperelliptic Riemann surfaces to almost $\frac{2}{3} g$ linearly independent vectors.

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arXiv2018

Energy distribution of harmonic 1-forms and Jacobians of Riemann surfaces with a short closed geodesic

We study the energy distribution of harmonic 1-forms on a compact hyperbolic Riemann surface $S$ where a short closed geodesic is pinched. If the geodesic separates the surface into two parts, then the Jacobian torus of $S$ develops into a torus that splits. If the geodesic is nonseparating then the Jacobian torus of $S$ degenerates. The aim of this work is to get insight into this process and give estimates in terms of geometric data of both the initial surface $S$ and the final surface, such as its injectivity radius and the lengths of geodesics that form a homology basis. As an invariant we introduce new families of symplectic matrices that compensate for the lack of full dimensional Gram-period matrices in the noncompact case.

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arXiv2018

Quantifying the sparseness of simple geodesics on hyperbolic surfaces

The goal of the article is to provide different explicit quantifications of the non density of simple closed geodesics on hyperbolic surfaces. In particular, we show that within any embedded metric disk on a surface, lies a disk of radius only depending on the topology of the surface (and the size of the first embedded disk), which is disjoint from any simple closed geodesic.

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arXiv2013

Quasiconformal embeddings of Y-pieces

In this paper we construct quasiconformal embeddings from Y-pieces that contain a short boundary geodesic into degenerate ones. These results are used in a companion paper to study the Jacobian tori of Riemann surfaces that contain small simple closed geodesics.

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arXiv2010

Some planar isospectral domains

We give a number of examples of isospectral pairs of plane domains, and a particularly simple method of proving isospectrality. One of our examples is a pair of domains that are not only isospectral but homophonic: Each domain has a distinguished point such that corresponding normalized Dirichlet eigenfunctions take equal values at the distinguished points. This shows that one really can't hear the shape of a drum.

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