Geometry, Topology and Dynamics Seminar
Kevin Schreve
University of Chicago
Proper actions versus uniform embeddings
Abstract: Whenever a finitely generated group G acts properly discontinuously by isometries on a metric space X, there is an induced uniform embedding (a Lipschitz and uniformly proper map) f: G --> X given by mapping G to an orbit.
I will talk about some examples of groups which uniformly embed into a contractible n-manifold but do not act on a contractible n-manifold.
Monday January 28, 2019 at 3:00 PM in 636 SEO