- McShane's identity
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In geometric topology, McShane's identity for a once punctured torus with a complete, finite volume hyperbolic structure is given by
The sum is over all simple closed geodesics γ on the torus; here l(γ) denotes the hyperbolic length of γ.
References
- Necessary and Sufficient Conditions for McShane's Identity and Variations Ser Peow Tan, Yan Loi Wong, and Ying Zhang eprint arXiv:math/0411184 [1]
- McShane, G. Simple geodesics and a series constant over Teichmuller space. Invent. Math. 132 (1998), no. 3, 607–632.
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