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Geometric Group Theory

Icon: calendar Eduardo Reyes (virtual) | 2025 Mar 08 from 03:10PM to 03:30PM (Eastern Time (US & Canada)) | Forbes 2070E

‟Green metrics on hyperbolic groups and reparameterizations of the geodesic flow” by Eduardo Reyes <eduardo.c.reyes@yale.edu>, Yale University

Abstract:

Teichmüller space is a classical construction that, for a given closed hyperbolic surface, parameterizes the geometric actions of its fundamental group on the hyperbolic plane. I will talk about a generalization of this space, where for an arbitrary hyperbolic group we consider a space parameterizing its geometric actions on Gromov hyperbolic spaces, simultaneously encoding negatively curved Riemannian metrics, Anosov representations, random walks, geometric cubulations, etc. In particular, I will discuss how Green metrics (those encoding admissible random walks on the group) are dense in this space. As an application, for fundamental groups of negatively curved manifolds we produce a dictionary between this space of geometric actions and the space of reparameterizations of the geodesic flow. This is joint work with Stephen Cantrell and Dídac Martínez-Granado.