Joint OU-OSU Geometry and Topology Seminar

Cannon-Thurston maps and the complex of curves

Chris Leininger, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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Wednesday February 27, 2008  
  809 Physical Sciences Center
  4:00 pm 4:45 pm  

Abstract I'll discuss a notion of a Cannon-Thurston map for the complex of curves of a surface with one puncture in terms of the Birman exact sequence. Then I'll describe how this can be used to prove that the Gromov boundary is locally path connected. This is joint work with Mahan Mj and Saul Schleimer.