Hierarchical hyperbolicity of graphs associated to surfaces
Speaker:
Katie Vokes, The Fields Institute
Date and Time:
Wednesday, September 26, 2018 - 2:00pm to 3:00pm
Location:
Fields Institute, Room 210
Abstract:
We will describe a notion of non-positive curvature introduced by Behrstock, Hagen and Sisto, which generalises results for mapping class groups of surfaces due to Masur and Minsky. We will present a result showing that certain graphs associated to surfaces also have this property.