Postdoc Seminar

Event Information Free Fuchsian groups and quantitative geometry of hyperbolic surfaces
11:00 on Friday November 23, 2018
12:00 on Friday November 23, 2018
HU1018, 215 Huron St.
Yan Mary He

University of Toronto

The celebrated Margulis Lemma states that there exists a universal constant $c_n$ such that if all the generators of a discrete group of isometries of hyperbolic n-space displace some point with distance smaller than $c_n$, then the group is virtually nilpotent. In this talk, I will discuss a displacement constraint theorem in the spirit of Margulis Lemma for hyperbolic surfaces which can be applied to study quantitative geometry of hyperbolic surfaces such as the two-dimensional Margulis constant, lengths of loops on hyperbolic surfaces and generalized collar lemma.

The Postdocs Seminar is a series of informal talks by Postdoctoral fellows. The aim is to learn some basics about each others research areas and to get into contact.