Geometry, Topology and Dynamics Seminar
Peter Storm
Stanford University
The minimal entropy conjecture for nonuniform rank one lattices
Abstract: Over ten years ago, Besson-Courtois-Gallot proved that a rank one
locally symmetric metric on a compact manifold uniquely minimizes
volume growth entropy among all other metrics with the same volume.
As usual, one would like to prove the same result in the finite volume
case. Strong partial results were obtained by Boland-Connell-Souto,
and the general case was proved recently. I'll explain the background
for this problem, and some of the ideas which go into the proof.
Wednesday March 15, 2006 at 4:00 PM in SEO 427