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On the autonomous metric on groups of Hamiltonian diffeomorphisms of closed hyperbolic surfaces

Let $Σ_g$ be a closed hyperbolic surface of genus $g$ and let $Ham(Σ_g)$ be the group of Hamiltonian diffeomorphisms of $Σ_g$. The most natural word metric on this group is the autonomous metric. It has many interesting properties, most important of which is the bi-invariance of this metric. In this work we show that $Ham(Σ_g)$ is unbounded with respect to this metric.