Guth, Larry Parlier, Hugo Young, Robert 2011 Our goal is to show, in two different contexts, that "random” surfaces have large pants decompositions. First we show that there are hyperbolic surfaces of genus g for which any pants decomposition requires curves of total length at least g 7/6−ε . Moreover, we prove that this bound holds for most metrics in the moduli space of hyperbolic metrics equipped with the Weil-Petersson volume form. We then consider surfaces obtained by randomly gluing euclidean triangles (with unit side length) together and show that these surfaces have the same property application/pdf https://sonar.ch/global/documents/306682 eng info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.1007/s00039-011-0131-x info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess License undefined, Springer Basel AG, 2011 Geometric and Functional Analysis. - SP Birkhäuser Verlag Basel. - 2011, vol. 21, no. 5, p. 1069-1090 info:eu-repo/classification/udc/51 Pants Decompositions of Random Surfaces http://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501