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Topology Seminar - Jacob Russell-Madonia

Topology Seminar
November 12, 2019
3:00PM - 4:00PM
Cockins Hall 240

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Add to Calendar 2019-11-12 15:00:00 2019-11-12 16:00:00 Topology Seminar - Jacob Russell-Madonia Title: The geometry of subgroup combination theorems Speaker: Jacob Russell-Madonia - CUNY Graduate Center Abstract: While producing subgroups of a group by specifying generators is easy, understanding the structure of such a subgroup is notoriously difficult problem. In the case of hyperbolic groups, Gitik utilized a local-to-global property to produce an elegant condition that ensures a subgroup generated by two elements (or more generally generated by two subgroups) will split as an amalgamated free product over the intersection of the generators. We show that the mapping class group of a surface and many other topologically important groups have a similar local-to-global property from which an analogy of Gitik's result can be obtained. In the case of the mapping class group, this produces a combination theorem for the dynamically and geometrically important convex cocompact subgroups. Joint work with Davide Spriano and Hung C. Tran. Cockins Hall 240 Department of Mathematics math@osu.edu America/New_York public

Title: The geometry of subgroup combination theorems

Speaker: Jacob Russell-Madonia - CUNY Graduate Center

Abstract: While producing subgroups of a group by specifying generators is easy, understanding the structure of such a subgroup is notoriously difficult problem. In the case of hyperbolic groups, Gitik utilized a local-to-global property to produce an elegant condition that ensures a subgroup generated by two elements (or more generally generated by two subgroups) will split as an amalgamated free product over the intersection of the generators. We show that the mapping class group of a surface and many other topologically important groups have a similar local-to-global property from which an analogy of Gitik's result can be obtained. In the case of the mapping class group, this produces a combination theorem for the dynamically and geometrically important convex cocompact subgroups. Joint work with Davide Spriano and Hung C. Tran.

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