Topology and Geometric Group Theory Seminar

Jenya SapirBinghamton University
Tessellations from long geodesics on surfaces

Tuesday, April 9, 2019 - 1:30pm
Malott 203

I will talk about joint work of Athreya, Lalley, Wroten and myself. Given a hyperbolic surface S, a typical long geodesic arc will divide the surface into many polygons. We give statistics for the geometry of a typical tessellation. Along the way, we look at how very long geodesic arcs behave in very small balls on the surface.