Geodesic currents of coarse negative curvature

Meenakshy Jyothis; Dídac Martínez-Granado

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Geodesic currents of coarse negative curvature

Meenakshy Jyothis·Dídac Martínez-Granado

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Strong hyperbolicity is a coarse notion of negative curvature, stronger than Gromov hyperbolicity, that includes all CAT(-k) metrics for k positive and allows the use of dynamical techniques available in negative curvature, such as thermodynamical formalism. We prove that the subset of geodesic currents whose dual pseudometric is strongly hyperbolic is dense in the space of geodesic currents. The proof combines an elementary finite-cover argument with a characterization of strong hyperbolicity in terms of boundary data for pseudometrics dual to geodesic currents. In contrast, we show that currents arising from non-positively curved metrics on the surface are not dense. As a consequence, we construct infinitely many pairwise non-roughly-isometric invariant strongly hyperbolic geodesic metrics on the universal cover of the surface which are not CAT(0). Finally, we establish correlation counting results for the associated length spectra.

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Meenakshy Jyothis, Dídac Martínez-Granado. 2026-05-14. Geodesic currents of coarse negative curvature. https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.14469

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