Comparing hyperbolic and extremal lengths for shortest curves
We give a linear upper bound for the extremal length in terms of the hyperbolic length for curves of a shortest pair of pants decomposition. As a consequence, we obtain results on the asymptotics of the maximum of the extremal length systole in moduli space for large genus. We also obtain upper bounds for the extremal length of shortest pair of pants decompositions and for the renormalized volume of 3-manifolds.