Dynamics Seminar

Zhenghao RaoRutgers University
Immersed Surfaces in Even-Dimensional Closed Hyperbolic Manifolds

Thursday, May 1, 2025 - 2:55pm
Malott 206

In 2009, Kahn and Markovic proved the Surface Subgroup Theorem, and they constructed a large family of \pi_1-injective immersed surfaces in closed hyperbolic 3-manifolds. Hamenstadt later showed that any cocompact lattice of some simple rank 1 Lie group other than SO(2m,1) (m >= 1) has a surface subgroup. In this talk, we will discuss the SO(2n,1) cases for n>1 and construct \pi_1-injective immersed surfaces in closed hyperbolic 2n-manifolds. This is joint work with Jeremy Kahn.