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How can generic closed geodesics on surfaces of negative curvature be constructed?

As far as I understand it the closing lemma implies that closed geodesics on surfaces of negative curvature are dense. So: how can they be constructed in general? A concrete answer that dovetails with ...
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Proper families for Anosov flows

So I've been skimming Bowen's 1972 paper "Symbolic Dynamics for Hyperbolic Flows" hoping it would give me some insight into how to build a Markov family for the cat flow (i.e., the Anosov flow ...