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Seminar

DMS Postdoc Seminar: Bounded cohomology of mapping class groups (and acylindrically hyperbolic groups) May 01, 2015 (10:45 AM PDT - 11:30 AM PDT)
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Location: SLMath: Eisenbud Auditorium
Speaker(s) Maria Beatrice Pozzetti (Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg)
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Bounded cohomology is a variation of usual cohomology that has many interesting geometric applications: for example it allows to define interesting invariants on some character varieties, and select maximal representations. However it is in general very difficult to compute and still poorly understood.



I will discuss in which sense mapping class groups have enough hyperbolic features to ensure that their third bounded cohomology is infinite dimensional. This is joint work with Roberto Frigerio and Alessandro Sisto.

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