The shortest non-simple closed geodesics on hyperbolic surfaces
Abstract
This article explores closed geodesics on hyperbolic surfaces. We show that, for sufficiently large k, the shortest closed geodesics with at least k self-intersections, taken among all hyperbolic surfaces, all lie on an ideal pair of pants and have length 2(2k+1).
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