Simple closed geodesic around two hyperbolic cusps.

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Consider a connected hyperbolic $2$-manifold $M$ with cusps. Consider a simple closed geodesic in $M$, which dissects $M$ into two components. Assume that one of the components contains exactly two cusps. Can you prove me, that this component is conformal to the hyperbolic disk with two points removed?

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This isn't true. After you cut, a component with two cusps may have any genus at all.

I shall give a specific counterexample. Let $P$ be a regular ideal hyperbolic $14$-gon, and let $S$ be the hyperbolic surface obtained by gluing together pairs of sides of $P$, as shown in the following figure:

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It is easy to check that $S$ is a genus-two surface with four cusps, indicated by the red, blue, yellow, and purple dots. The dashed blue line is a closed geodesic, and cutting along this geodesic separates the surface into two components, each of which is isomorphic to a torus with two cusps and a disk removed.