Geometry-Topology Seminar

Harold Sultan Columbia University will speak on Asymptotic geometry of Teichmuller space and divergence

I will talk about the asymptotic geometry of Teichmuller space equipped with the Weil-Petersson metric. In particular, I will give a criterion for determining when two points in the asymptotic cone of Teichmuller space can be separated by a point; motivated by a similar characterization in mapping class groups by Behrstock-Kleiner-Minsky-Mosher and in right angled Artin groups by Behrstock-Charney. As a corollary, I will explain a new way to uniquely characterize the Teichmuller space of the genus two once punctured surface amongst all Teichmuller space in that it has a divergence function which is superquadratic yet subexponential.

Tuesday, 31 January 2012
Lecture at 4:30 PM
Wachman Hall, Room 617
Mathematics Department