Topology Seminar

Mondays 3-4pm (Eastern Time), Ayres Hall 113

Organizers: Sagnik Jana, Yulan Qing

Speaker: Caglar Uyanik

Title: Singularity of Cannon-Thurston maps

Abstract: Cannon and Thurston showed that a hyperbolic 3-manifold that fibers over the circle gives rise to a sphere-filling curve. The universal cover of the fiber surface is quasi-isometric to the hyperbolic plane, whose boundary is a circle, and the universal cover of the 3-manifold is 3-dimensional hyperbolic space, whose boundary is the 2-sphere. Cannon and Thurston showed that the inclusion map between the universal covers extends to a continuous map between their boundaries, whose image is onto. In particular, any measure on the circle pushes forward to a measure on the 2-sphere using this map. We compare several natural measures coming from this construction.


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