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Conformal Dynamics

Introductory Workshop: Dynamics on Moduli Spaces of Geometric Structures January 20, 2015 - January 23, 2015

January 20, 2015 (09:30 AM PST - 10:30 AM PST)
Speaker(s): Yves Benoist (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS))
Location: SLMath: Eisenbud Auditorium
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Abstract

This minicourse is an introduction to the group of conformal transformations of the sphere. We will focus on its action on the space of non-singleton compact subsets of the sphere.
1. Conformal autosimilarity: we will see that the compact subsets  whose orbit is closed are exactly the limit sets of convex cocompact subgroups.
2. Quasicircles: we  will see that the compact subsets whose orbit closure contains only Jordan curves are exactly the quasicircles.
3. Minimal orbits: we will construct compact subsets of the sphere whose orbit is not closed but whose orbit closure is minimal.

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