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We prove that, if a closed geodesic on a complete finite type hyperbolic surface has at least 2 self-intersections, then the length of has an lower bound 2 (5+26), and the lower bound is sharp, attained on a corkscrew geodesic on a thrice punctured sphere.
Wujie Shen (Thu,) studied this question.