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This is one of the research seminars for the RAS program, that distinguishes itself from the postdocs and program associates seminars in that speakers are chosen among Research Members, Research Professors with occasional outside speakers.
Quasi-Morphisms On Surface Diffeomorphism Groups
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Abstract:
We will construct nontrivial quasimorphisms on the group of diffeomorphisms of a surface of genus at least 1 which are isotopic to the identity. This involves considering the graph whose vertices correspond to curves on the surface (not up to isotopy!), and transferring usual curve graph methods to this setting. In particular, we show that it is hyperbolic, and we construct elements of Diff_0(S) which act as independent enough hyperbolic elements on it. As a consequence, we also solve a question by Burago-Ivanov-Polterovich on the unboundedness of the fragmentation norm. This is joint work with Jonathan Bowden and Richard Webb. If time permits, I will also talk about work in progress that is additionally joint with Katie Mann and Emmanuel Militon, dynamically characterizing hyperbolic isometries of our curve graph of the torus.
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