Adams, Colin Maximal cusps, collars, and systoles in hyperbolic surfaces. (English) Zbl 0912.53026 Indiana Univ. Math. J. 47, No. 2, 419-437 (1998). It is proved that a maximal cusp in any orientable hyperbolic surface has area at least 4, with the lower bound of 4 realized only for a cusp in the thrice-punctured sphere. For a maximal cusp in any other hyperbolic surfaces with \(p\)-punctures, it is shown that it has area at most \(6|\chi(S)|- (p-1)\), and that there is a metric that realizes this upper bound. Moreover, over all possible hyperbolic metrics, the area \(A\) of the maximal cusp takes on all values such that \(4< A\leq 6| \chi(S)|- (p-1)\). If \(S\) is a punctured orientable hyperbolic surface other than the thrice-punctured sphere, and if \(S\) is endowed with any complete hyperbolic metric, then it is proved that there exists a choice of a maximal set of cusps in the hyperbolic surface with total area greater than \(5p/2\) if \(p\) is even and \(5p/2+3/2\) if \(p\) is odd. These universal lower bounds are the best possible. Applications of these results to new lower bound on collar areas and upper bounds on systole lengths are included. Reviewer: Colin Adams (Williamstown/MA) Cited in 8 Documents MSC: 53C20 Global Riemannian geometry, including pinching Keywords:minimum area of maximal cusps in hyperbolic surfaces; lower bound on collar areas; upper bounds on systole lengths PDFBibTeX XMLCite \textit{C. Adams}, Indiana Univ. Math. J. 47, No. 2, 419--437 (1998; Zbl 0912.53026) Full Text: DOI Link