Speaker: | Kenneth Shackleton (IPMU) |
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Title: | On Harvey's curve complex |
Date (JST): | Fri, Jan 16, 2009, 13:30 - 15:00 |
Place: | Seminar Room at IPMU Prefab. B |
Abstract: | We discuss an important graph in low-dimensional topology called the "curve graph" of a surface, the 1-skeleton of the curve complex, after Bill Harvey. We give some idea of its importance, and some of its theory, mentioning the work of Ivanov, Masur-Minsky and Bowditch among others. |