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<div>During the Fall 2023 semester, '''RTG / Group Actions and [[Dynamics]]''' seminar meets in room '''Sterling Hall 1339''' on '''Mondays''' from '''2:25pm - 3:15pm'''. To sign up for the mailing list send an email from your wisc.edu address to dynamics+join@g-groups.wisc.edu. For more information, contact Paul Apisa, Marissa Loving, Caglar Uyanik, Chenxi Wu or Andy Zimmer. <br />
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<br />
<br />
== Fall 2023 ==<br />
<br />
{| cellpadding="8"<br />
!align="left" | date<br />
!align="left" | speaker<br />
!align="left" | title<br />
!align="left" | host(s)<br />
<br />
|-<br />
|September 11<br />
|[https://www.maths.gla.ac.uk/~vgadre/ Vaibhav Gadre] (Glasgow)<br />
|Teichmuller flow detects the fundamental group<br />
|Apisa<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|September 18<br />
|[https://sites.google.com/view/beckyeastham/ Becky Eastham] (UW Madison)<br />
|Whitehead space: a tool to study finite regular covers of graphs<br />
|local<br />
|-<br />
|September 25<br />
|[https://sites.google.com/view/algebrandis/ Brandis Whitfield] (Temple)<br />
|Short curves of end-periodic mapping tori<br />
|Loving<br />
|-<br />
|September 28 '''(Thursday 4-5pm in B139)'''<br />
|[https://sites.google.com/view/itamarv/home Itamar Vigdorovich] (Weizmann)<br />
|Group stability, characters, and dynamics on compact groups<br />
|Dymarz/Gurevich<br />
|-<br />
|October 2<br />
|[https://hanhv.github.io/ Hanh Vo] (Arizona State)<br />
|Short geodesics with self-intersections<br />
|Dymarz<br />
|-<br />
|October 9<br />
|[https://people.math.wisc.edu/~ywu495/ Yandi Wu] (UW Madison)<br />
|Marked Length Spectrum Rigidity for Surface Amalgams<br />
|local<br />
|-<br />
|October 16<br />
|[https://www.samkwak.info/ Sanghoon Kwak] (Utah)<br />
|Mapping class groups of Infinite graphs — “Big Out(Fn)”<br />
|Loving<br />
|-<br />
|October 23 '''(11:55-12:55 in B223)'''<br />
|[https://sites.google.com/view/sara-maloni Sara Maloni] (UVA)<br />
|Dynamics on the SU(2,1)-character varieties of the one-holed torus<br />
|Uyanik<br />
|-<br />
|October 30<br />
|[http://www.math.toronto.edu/tiozzo/ Giulio Tiozzo] (Toronto)<br />
|A characterization of hyperbolic groups via contracting elements<br />
|Uyanik<br />
|-<br />
|November 6<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
<br />
|November 13<br />
|[https://sites.google.com/view/hmnie/home Hongming Nie] (Stony Brook)<br />
| A metric view of polynomial shift locus<br />
|Wu<br />
|-<br />
|November 20<br />
|No seminar<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|November 27<br />
|[https://people.math.wisc.edu/~ljeffreys/ Luke Jeffreys] (UW Madison)<br />
|TBA<br />
|local<br />
|-<br />
|December 4<br />
|[http://www.estark.net/ Emily Stark] (Wesleyan)<br />
|Graphically discrete groups and rigidity<br />
|Uyanik<br />
|-<br />
|December 11<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|}<br />
<br />
== Fall Abstracts ==<br />
<br />
===Vaibhav Gadre===<br />
<br />
A quadratic differential on a Riemann surface is equivalent to a half-translation structure on the surface by complex charts with half-translation transitions. The SL(2,R)-action on the complex plane takes half-translations to half-translations and so descends to moduli spaces of quadratic differentials. The diagonal part of the action is the Teichmuller flow. <br />
<br />
<br />
Apart from its intrinsic interest, the dynamics of Teichmuller flow is central to many applications in geometry, topology and dynamics. The Konstevich—Zorich cocycle which records the action of the flow on the absolute homology of the surface, plays a key role.<br />
<br />
<br />
In this talk, I will explain how the flow detects the topology of moduli spaces. Specifically, we will show that the flow group, namely the subgroup generated by almost flow loops, has finite index in the fundamental group. As a corollary, we will prove that the minus and plus (modular) Rauzy—Veech groups have finite index in the fundamental group, answering a question by Yoccoz.<br />
<br />
<br />
Using this, and Filip’s results on algebraic hulls and Zariski closures of modular monodromies, we prove that the Konstevich—Zurich cocycle (separately minus and plus pieces) have a simple Lyapunov spectrum, extending the work of Forni from 2002 and Avila—Viana from 2007.<br />
<br />
===Becky Eastham===<br />
<br />
The Whitehead space of a finite regular cover of the rose is a locally infinite graph whose vertices are in one-to-one correspondence with conjugacy classes of elements of the subgroup associated with the cover. Every Whitehead space is a subgraph of the quotient of <math>\mathrm{Cay}(F_n, \mathcal{C})</math> by conjugacy; here $\mathcal{C}$ is the set of elements of $F_n$ conjugate into a proper free factor. Our main interest in this space is that it is connected if and only if the fundamental group of the associated cover is generated by lifts of elements of $\mathcal{C}$ to the cover. In addition, Whitehead space of the rose is an infinite-diameter, non-hyperbolic, one-ended space with an isometric action of $\mathrm{Out}(F_n)$. Thus, Whitehead space is not quasi-isometric to the free factor complex, the free splitting complex, or Outer Space.<br />
<br />
===Brandis Whitfield===<br />
Let $S$ be a boundaryless infinite-type surface with finitely many ends and consider an end-periodic homeomorphism $f$$ $of S. The end-periodicity of $f$ ensures that $M_f$, its associated mapping torus, has a compactification as a $3$-manifold with boundary; and further, if $f$ is atoroidal, then $M_f$ admits a hyperbolic metric.<br />
<br />
As an end-periodic analogy to work of Minsky in the finite-type setting, we show that given a subsurface $Y\subset S$, the subsurface projections between the "positive" and "negative" Handel-Miller laminations provide bounds for the geodesic length of the boundary of $Y$ as it resides in $M_f$.<br />
<br />
In this talk, we'll discuss the motivating theory for finite-type surfaces and closed fibered hyperbolic $3$-manifolds, and how these techniques may be used in the infinite-type setting.<br />
<br />
===Itamar Vigdorovich===<br />
<br />
I will discuss three seemingly unrelated topics:<br />
1. Stability: given a pair of matrices that almost commute, can they be perturbed to matrices which do commute? Interestingly, the answer highly depends on the chosen metric on matrices. This question is a special case of group stability: is every almost-homomorphism close to an actual homomorphism?<br />
2. Characters: these are functions on groups with special properties that generalize the classical notion in Pontryagin's theory of abelian groups, and in Frobenius's theory of finite groups. Is every character a limit of a finite-dimensional character?<br />
3. Topological dynamics: given a group G acting by homeomorphisms on a compact space X, are the periodic measures dense is the space all invariant measures?<br />
In this talk I will present these three subjects of study and explain how there are all in fact intimately related, as least in the amenable setting. For example, stability of the lamplighter group is strongly related to the orbit closing lemma for the Bernoulli shift, and stability of the semidirect product ZxZ[1/6] is related to whether Furstenberg's x2x3 system has dense periodic measures. <br />
The talk is based on a joint work with Arie Levit.<br />
<br />
===Hanh Vo===<br />
<br />
We consider the set of closed geodesics on a hyperbolic surface. Given any non-negative integer k, we are interested in the set of primitive essential closed geodesics with at least k self-intersections. Among these, we investigate those of minimal length. In this talk, we will discuss their self-intersection numbers.<br />
<br />
===Yandi Wu===<br />
<br />
The marked length spectrum of a negatively curved metric space can be thought of as a length assignment to every closed geodesic in the space. A celebrated result by Otal says that metrics on negatively curved closed surfaces are determined completely by their marked length spectra. In my talk, I will discuss my work towards extending Otal’s result to a large class of surface amalgams, which are natural generalizations of surfaces.<br />
<br />
===Sanghoon Kwak===<br />
Surfaces and graphs are closely related; there are many parallels between the mapping class groups of finite-type surfaces and finite graphs, where the mapping class group of a finite graph is the outer automorphism group of a free group of (finite) rank. A recent surge of interest in infinite-type surfaces and their mapping class groups begs a natural question: What is the mapping class group of an “infinite” graph? In this talk, I will explain the answer given by Algom-Kfir and Bestvina and present recent work, joint with George Domat (Rice University), and Hannah Hoganson (University of Maryland), on the coarse geometry of such groups.<br />
<br />
===Sara Maloni===<br />
<br />
In this talk we will discuss join work in progress with S. Lawton and F. Palesi on the (relative) SU(2, 1)–character variety for the once-holed torus. We consider the action of the mapping class group and describe a domain of discontinuity for this action, which strictly contains the set of convex-cocompact characters. We will also discuss the connection with the recent work of S. Schlich, and the inspiration behind this project, which lies in the rich theory developed for SL(2, C)–character varieties by Bowditch, Minsky and others. <br />
<br />
===Giulio Tiozzo===<br />
<br />
The notion of contracting element has become central in geometric group theory, <br />
singling out, in an arbitrary metric space, the geodesics which behave like geodesics <br />
in a delta-hyperbolic space. In this work, joint with K. Chawla and I. Choi, we prove <br />
the following characterization of hyperbolic groups: a group is hyperbolic if and only if <br />
the D-contracting elements are generic with respect to counting in the Cayley graph. <br />
<br />
<br />
===Hongming Nie===<br />
<br />
The escaping rates of critical points for polynomials in C[z] induce a continuous and proper map on the moduli space M_d of degree d\ge 2 polynomials. This map has a monotone-light factorization via an intermediate space T_d^* studied by DeMarco and Pilgrim. Restricting on the shift locus S_d of M_d, one obtains the corresponding intermediate space ST_d^*. In this talk, I will relate generic points in S_d to the length functions on the (2d-2)-rose graph and then present an understanding of the natural projectivization of ST_d^* from a metric view. The metric is obtained from thermodynamic metrics on the space of metric graphs. This is a joint work with Yan Mary He.<br />
<br />
===Luke Jeffreys===<br />
<br />
<br />
===Emily Stark===<br />
<br />
Rigidity problems in geometric group theory frequently have the following form: if two finitely generated groups share a geometric structure, do they share algebraic structure? We consider two finitely generated groups that are either quasi-isometric or act geometrically on the same proper metric space, and we ask if they are virtually isomorphic. The work of Papasoglu--Whyte demonstrates that infinite-ended groups are quasi-isometrically flexible, but our results show that if you assume a common geometric model, then there is often rigidity. To do this, we introduce the notion of a graphically discrete group, which imposes a discreteness criterion on the automorphism group of any graph the group acts on geometrically. Classic examples of graphically discrete groups include virtually nilpotent groups and fundamental groups of closed hyperbolic manifolds; free groups are non-examples. We will present new examples and demonstrate this property is not a commensurability invariant. We will present rigidity phenomena for free products of graphically discrete groups. This is joint work with Alex Margolis, Sam Shepherd, and Daniel Woodhouse.<br />
<br />
<br />
== Spring 2023 ==<br />
<br />
{| cellpadding="8"<br />
!align="left" | date<br />
!align="left" | speaker<br />
!align="left" | title<br />
!align="left" | host(s)<br />
<br />
|-<br />
|January 29<br />
|[https://sites.google.com/view/michael-zshornack/home Michael Zshornack] (UCSB)<br />
|TBA<br />
|Zimmer<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|February 5<br />
|[https://www.sayantankhan.io Sayantan Khan] (Michigan)<br />
|TBA<br />
|Uyanik<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|April 29<br />
|[https://sites.google.com/view/chris-leiningers-webpage/home Chris Leininger] (Rice)<br />
|TBA<br />
|Uyanik<br />
|}<br />
<br />
== Archive of past Dynamics seminars==<br />
<br />
2022-2023 [[Dynamics_Seminar_2022-2023]]<br />
<br />
2021-2022 [[Dynamics_Seminar_2021-2022]]<br />
<br />
2020-2021 [[Dynamics_Seminar_2020-2021]]</div>Cwu367https://wiki.math.wisc.edu/index.php?title=Dynamics_Seminar&diff=25568Dynamics Seminar2023-11-10T22:39:16Z<p>Cwu367: /* Fall 2023 */</p>
<hr />
<div>During the Fall 2023 semester, '''RTG / Group Actions and [[Dynamics]]''' seminar meets in room '''Sterling Hall 1339''' on '''Mondays''' from '''2:25pm - 3:15pm'''. To sign up for the mailing list send an email from your wisc.edu address to dynamics+join@g-groups.wisc.edu. For more information, contact Paul Apisa, Marissa Loving, Caglar Uyanik, Chenxi Wu or Andy Zimmer. <br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
== Fall 2023 ==<br />
<br />
{| cellpadding="8"<br />
!align="left" | date<br />
!align="left" | speaker<br />
!align="left" | title<br />
!align="left" | host(s)<br />
<br />
|-<br />
|September 11<br />
|[https://www.maths.gla.ac.uk/~vgadre/ Vaibhav Gadre] (Glasgow)<br />
|Teichmuller flow detects the fundamental group<br />
|Apisa<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|September 18<br />
|[https://sites.google.com/view/beckyeastham/ Becky Eastham] (UW Madison)<br />
|Whitehead space: a tool to study finite regular covers of graphs<br />
|local<br />
|-<br />
|September 25<br />
|[https://sites.google.com/view/algebrandis/ Brandis Whitfield] (Temple)<br />
|Short curves of end-periodic mapping tori<br />
|Loving<br />
|-<br />
|September 28 '''(Thursday 4-5pm in B139)'''<br />
|[https://sites.google.com/view/itamarv/home Itamar Vigdorovich] (Weizmann)<br />
|Group stability, characters, and dynamics on compact groups<br />
|Dymarz/Gurevich<br />
|-<br />
|October 2<br />
|[https://hanhv.github.io/ Hanh Vo] (Arizona State)<br />
|Short geodesics with self-intersections<br />
|Dymarz<br />
|-<br />
|October 9<br />
|[https://people.math.wisc.edu/~ywu495/ Yandi Wu] (UW Madison)<br />
|Marked Length Spectrum Rigidity for Surface Amalgams<br />
|local<br />
|-<br />
|October 16<br />
|[https://www.samkwak.info/ Sanghoon Kwak] (Utah)<br />
|Mapping class groups of Infinite graphs — “Big Out(Fn)”<br />
|Loving<br />
|-<br />
|October 23 '''(11:55-12:55 in B223)'''<br />
|[https://sites.google.com/view/sara-maloni Sara Maloni] (UVA)<br />
|Dynamics on the SU(2,1)-character varieties of the one-holed torus<br />
|Uyanik<br />
|-<br />
|October 30<br />
|[http://www.math.toronto.edu/tiozzo/ Giulio Tiozzo] (Toronto)<br />
|A characterization of hyperbolic groups via contracting elements<br />
|Uyanik<br />
|-<br />
|November 6<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
<br />
|November 13<br />
|[https://sites.google.com/view/hmnie/home Hongming Nie] (Stony Brook)<br />
| A metric view of polynomial shift locus<br />
|Wu<br />
|-<br />
|November 20<br />
|No seminar<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|November 27<br />
|[https://people.math.wisc.edu/~ljeffreys/ Luke Jeffreys] (UW Madison)<br />
|TBA<br />
|local<br />
|-<br />
|December 4<br />
|[http://www.estark.net/ Emily Stark] (Wesleyan)<br />
|Graphically discrete groups and rigidity<br />
|Uyanik<br />
|-<br />
|December 11<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|}<br />
<br />
== Fall Abstracts ==<br />
<br />
===Vaibhav Gadre===<br />
<br />
A quadratic differential on a Riemann surface is equivalent to a half-translation structure on the surface by complex charts with half-translation transitions. The SL(2,R)-action on the complex plane takes half-translations to half-translations and so descends to moduli spaces of quadratic differentials. The diagonal part of the action is the Teichmuller flow. <br />
<br />
<br />
Apart from its intrinsic interest, the dynamics of Teichmuller flow is central to many applications in geometry, topology and dynamics. The Konstevich—Zorich cocycle which records the action of the flow on the absolute homology of the surface, plays a key role.<br />
<br />
<br />
In this talk, I will explain how the flow detects the topology of moduli spaces. Specifically, we will show that the flow group, namely the subgroup generated by almost flow loops, has finite index in the fundamental group. As a corollary, we will prove that the minus and plus (modular) Rauzy—Veech groups have finite index in the fundamental group, answering a question by Yoccoz.<br />
<br />
<br />
Using this, and Filip’s results on algebraic hulls and Zariski closures of modular monodromies, we prove that the Konstevich—Zurich cocycle (separately minus and plus pieces) have a simple Lyapunov spectrum, extending the work of Forni from 2002 and Avila—Viana from 2007.<br />
<br />
===Becky Eastham===<br />
<br />
The Whitehead space of a finite regular cover of the rose is a locally infinite graph whose vertices are in one-to-one correspondence with conjugacy classes of elements of the subgroup associated with the cover. Every Whitehead space is a subgraph of the quotient of <math>\mathrm{Cay}(F_n, \mathcal{C})</math> by conjugacy; here $\mathcal{C}$ is the set of elements of $F_n$ conjugate into a proper free factor. Our main interest in this space is that it is connected if and only if the fundamental group of the associated cover is generated by lifts of elements of $\mathcal{C}$ to the cover. In addition, Whitehead space of the rose is an infinite-diameter, non-hyperbolic, one-ended space with an isometric action of $\mathrm{Out}(F_n)$. Thus, Whitehead space is not quasi-isometric to the free factor complex, the free splitting complex, or Outer Space.<br />
<br />
===Brandis Whitfield===<br />
Let $S$ be a boundaryless infinite-type surface with finitely many ends and consider an end-periodic homeomorphism $f$$ $of S. The end-periodicity of $f$ ensures that $M_f$, its associated mapping torus, has a compactification as a $3$-manifold with boundary; and further, if $f$ is atoroidal, then $M_f$ admits a hyperbolic metric.<br />
<br />
As an end-periodic analogy to work of Minsky in the finite-type setting, we show that given a subsurface $Y\subset S$, the subsurface projections between the "positive" and "negative" Handel-Miller laminations provide bounds for the geodesic length of the boundary of $Y$ as it resides in $M_f$.<br />
<br />
In this talk, we'll discuss the motivating theory for finite-type surfaces and closed fibered hyperbolic $3$-manifolds, and how these techniques may be used in the infinite-type setting.<br />
<br />
===Itamar Vigdorovich===<br />
<br />
I will discuss three seemingly unrelated topics:<br />
1. Stability: given a pair of matrices that almost commute, can they be perturbed to matrices which do commute? Interestingly, the answer highly depends on the chosen metric on matrices. This question is a special case of group stability: is every almost-homomorphism close to an actual homomorphism?<br />
2. Characters: these are functions on groups with special properties that generalize the classical notion in Pontryagin's theory of abelian groups, and in Frobenius's theory of finite groups. Is every character a limit of a finite-dimensional character?<br />
3. Topological dynamics: given a group G acting by homeomorphisms on a compact space X, are the periodic measures dense is the space all invariant measures?<br />
In this talk I will present these three subjects of study and explain how there are all in fact intimately related, as least in the amenable setting. For example, stability of the lamplighter group is strongly related to the orbit closing lemma for the Bernoulli shift, and stability of the semidirect product ZxZ[1/6] is related to whether Furstenberg's x2x3 system has dense periodic measures. <br />
The talk is based on a joint work with Arie Levit.<br />
<br />
===Hanh Vo===<br />
<br />
We consider the set of closed geodesics on a hyperbolic surface. Given any non-negative integer k, we are interested in the set of primitive essential closed geodesics with at least k self-intersections. Among these, we investigate those of minimal length. In this talk, we will discuss their self-intersection numbers.<br />
<br />
===Yandi Wu===<br />
<br />
The marked length spectrum of a negatively curved metric space can be thought of as a length assignment to every closed geodesic in the space. A celebrated result by Otal says that metrics on negatively curved closed surfaces are determined completely by their marked length spectra. In my talk, I will discuss my work towards extending Otal’s result to a large class of surface amalgams, which are natural generalizations of surfaces.<br />
<br />
===Sanghoon Kwak===<br />
Surfaces and graphs are closely related; there are many parallels between the mapping class groups of finite-type surfaces and finite graphs, where the mapping class group of a finite graph is the outer automorphism group of a free group of (finite) rank. A recent surge of interest in infinite-type surfaces and their mapping class groups begs a natural question: What is the mapping class group of an “infinite” graph? In this talk, I will explain the answer given by Algom-Kfir and Bestvina and present recent work, joint with George Domat (Rice University), and Hannah Hoganson (University of Maryland), on the coarse geometry of such groups.<br />
<br />
===Sara Maloni===<br />
<br />
In this talk we will discuss join work in progress with S. Lawton and F. Palesi on the (relative) SU(2, 1)–character variety for the once-holed torus. We consider the action of the mapping class group and describe a domain of discontinuity for this action, which strictly contains the set of convex-cocompact characters. We will also discuss the connection with the recent work of S. Schlich, and the inspiration behind this project, which lies in the rich theory developed for SL(2, C)–character varieties by Bowditch, Minsky and others. <br />
<br />
===Giulio Tiozzo===<br />
<br />
The notion of contracting element has become central in geometric group theory, <br />
singling out, in an arbitrary metric space, the geodesics which behave like geodesics <br />
in a delta-hyperbolic space. In this work, joint with K. Chawla and I. Choi, we prove <br />
the following characterization of hyperbolic groups: a group is hyperbolic if and only if <br />
the D-contracting elements are generic with respect to counting in the Cayley graph. <br />
<br />
<br />
===Hongming Nie===<br />
<br />
===Luke Jeffreys===<br />
<br />
<br />
===Emily Stark===<br />
<br />
Rigidity problems in geometric group theory frequently have the following form: if two finitely generated groups share a geometric structure, do they share algebraic structure? We consider two finitely generated groups that are either quasi-isometric or act geometrically on the same proper metric space, and we ask if they are virtually isomorphic. The work of Papasoglu--Whyte demonstrates that infinite-ended groups are quasi-isometrically flexible, but our results show that if you assume a common geometric model, then there is often rigidity. To do this, we introduce the notion of a graphically discrete group, which imposes a discreteness criterion on the automorphism group of any graph the group acts on geometrically. Classic examples of graphically discrete groups include virtually nilpotent groups and fundamental groups of closed hyperbolic manifolds; free groups are non-examples. We will present new examples and demonstrate this property is not a commensurability invariant. We will present rigidity phenomena for free products of graphically discrete groups. This is joint work with Alex Margolis, Sam Shepherd, and Daniel Woodhouse.<br />
<br />
<br />
== Spring 2023 ==<br />
<br />
{| cellpadding="8"<br />
!align="left" | date<br />
!align="left" | speaker<br />
!align="left" | title<br />
!align="left" | host(s)<br />
<br />
|-<br />
|January 29<br />
|[https://sites.google.com/view/michael-zshornack/home Michael Zshornack] (UCSB)<br />
|TBA<br />
|Zimmer<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|February 5<br />
|[https://www.sayantankhan.io Sayantan Khan] (Michigan)<br />
|TBA<br />
|Uyanik<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|April 29<br />
|[https://sites.google.com/view/chris-leiningers-webpage/home Chris Leininger] (Rice)<br />
|TBA<br />
|Uyanik<br />
|}<br />
<br />
== Archive of past Dynamics seminars==<br />
<br />
2022-2023 [[Dynamics_Seminar_2022-2023]]<br />
<br />
2021-2022 [[Dynamics_Seminar_2021-2022]]<br />
<br />
2020-2021 [[Dynamics_Seminar_2020-2021]]</div>Cwu367https://wiki.math.wisc.edu/index.php?title=Dynamics_Seminar&diff=25033Dynamics Seminar2023-08-17T18:02:37Z<p>Cwu367: </p>
<hr />
<div>During the Fall 2023 semester, '''RTG / Group Actions and [[Dynamics]]''' seminar meets in room '''Van Vleck B235''' on '''Mondays''' from '''2:25pm - 3:15pm'''. To sign up for the mailing list send an email from your wisc.edu address to dynamics+join@g-groups.wisc.edu. For more information, contact Paul Apisa, Marissa Loving, Caglar Uyanik, Chenxi Wu or Andy Zimmer. <br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
== Fall 2023 ==<br />
<br />
{| cellpadding="8"<br />
!align="left" | date<br />
!align="left" | speaker<br />
!align="left" | title<br />
!align="left" | host(s)<br />
<br />
|-<br />
|September 11<br />
|[https://www.maths.gla.ac.uk/~vgadre/ Vaibhav Gadre] (Glasgow)<br />
|TBA<br />
|Apisa<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|September 18<br />
|[https://sites.google.com/view/beckyeastham/ Becky Eastham] (UW Madison)<br />
|TBA<br />
|local<br />
|-<br />
|September 25<br />
|[https://sites.google.com/view/algebrandis/ Brandis Whitfield] (Temple)<br />
|TBA<br />
|Loving<br />
|-<br />
|October 2<br />
|[https://hanhv.github.io/ Hanh Vo] (Arizona State)<br />
|TBA<br />
|Dymarz<br />
|-<br />
|October 9<br />
|[https://people.math.wisc.edu/~ywu495/ Yandi Wu] (UW Madison)<br />
|TBA<br />
|local<br />
|-<br />
|October 16<br />
|[https://www.samkwak.info/ Sanghoon Kwak] (Utah)<br />
|Mapping class groups of Infinite graphs — “Big Out(Fn)”<br />
|Loving<br />
|-<br />
|October 23<br />
|[https://sites.google.com/view/sara-maloni Sara Maloni] (UVA)<br />
|TBA<br />
|Uyanik<br />
|-<br />
|October 30<br />
|[http://www.math.toronto.edu/tiozzo/ Giulio Tiozzo] (Toronto)<br />
|TBA<br />
|Uyanik<br />
|-<br />
|November 6<br />
|[http://www.estark.net/ Emily Stark] (Wesleyan)<br />
|TBA<br />
|Uyanik<br />
|-<br />
|November 13<br />
|Hongming Nie (Stonybrook)<br />
|TBA<br />
|Wu<br />
|-<br />
|November 20<br />
|[https://www.rosemorriswright.com/ Rose Morris-Wright] (Middlebury)<br />
|TBA<br />
|Dymarz<br />
|-<br />
|November 27<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|December 4<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|December 11<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|}<br />
<br />
== Fall Abstracts ==<br />
<br />
===Vaibhav Gadre===<br />
<br />
===Becky Eastham===<br />
<br />
===Brandis Whitfield===<br />
<br />
===Hanh Vo===<br />
<br />
===Yandi Wu===<br />
<br />
===Sanghoon Kwak===<br />
Surfaces and graphs are closely related; there are many parallels between the mapping class groups of finite-type surfaces and finite graphs, where the mapping class group of a finite graph is the outer automorphism group of a free group of (finite) rank. A recent surge of interest in infinite-type surfaces and their mapping class groups begs a natural question: What is the mapping class group of an “infinite” graph? In this talk, I will explain the answer given by Algom-Kfir and Bestvina and present recent work, joint with George Domat (Rice University), and Hannah Hoganson (University of Maryland), on the coarse geometry of such groups.<br />
<br />
===Sara Maloni===<br />
<br />
===Giulio Tiozzo===<br />
<br />
===Emily Stark===<br />
<br />
===Rose Morris-Wright===<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
== Archive of past Dynamics seminars==<br />
<br />
2022-2023 [[Dynamics_Seminar_2022-2023]]<br />
<br />
2021-2022 [[Dynamics_Seminar_2021-2022]]<br />
<br />
2020-2021 [[Dynamics_Seminar_2020-2021]]</div>Cwu367https://wiki.math.wisc.edu/index.php?title=Dynamics_Seminar_2022-2023&diff=24070Dynamics Seminar 2022-20232022-11-21T20:36:01Z<p>Cwu367: /* Fall 2022 */</p>
<hr />
<div>The [[Dynamics]] seminar meets in room '''B329 of Van Vleck Hall''' on '''Mondays''' from '''2:30pm - 3:20pm'''. To sign up for the mailing list send an email from your wisc.edu address to dynamics+join@g-groups.wisc.edu. For more information, contact Paul Apisa, Marissa Loving, Caglar Uyanik, or Chenxi Wu. Contact Caglar Uyanik with your wisc email to get the zoom link for virtual talks. <br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
== Fall 2022 ==<br />
<br />
{| cellpadding="8"<br />
!align="left" | date<br />
!align="left" | speaker<br />
!align="left" | title<br />
!align="left" | host(s)<br />
<br />
|-<br />
|September 12<br />
|[https://math.ou.edu/~jing/ Jing Tao] (OU)<br />
|[[#Jing Tao|Genericity of pseudo-Anosov maps]]<br />
|Dymarz and Uyanik<br />
|-<br />
|September 19<br />
|[https://math.temple.edu/~tug67058/ Rebekah Palmer] (Temple)(virtual)<br />
|[[#Rebekah Palmer|Totally geodesic surfaces in knot complements]]<br />
|VIRTUAL<br />
|-<br />
|September 26<br />
|[https://sites.google.com/view/beibei-liu/ Beibei Liu] (MIT)<br />
|[[#Beibei Liu|The critical exponent: old and new]]<br />
| Dymarz<br />
|-<br />
|October 3<br />
|Grace Work (UW-Madison)<br />
|[[#Grace Work |Discretely shrinking targets in moduli space]]<br />
|local<br />
|-<br />
|October 10<br />
|[https://mutanguha.com/ Jean Pierre Mutanguha] (Princeton)<br />
|[[#Jean Pierre Mutanguha| Canonical forms for free group automorphisms]]<br />
|Uyanik<br />
|-<br />
|October 17<br />
|[https://sites.google.com/ucsd.edu/ans032/ Anthony Sanchez] (UCSD)<br />
|[[#Anthony Sanchez | Kontsevich-Zorich monodromy groups of translation covers of some platonic solids]]<br />
|Uyanik<br />
|-<br />
|October 24<br />
|[https://you.stonybrook.edu/aerchenko/ Alena Erchenko] (U Chicago)<br />
|postponed<br />
|Uyanik and Work<br />
|-<br />
|October 31<br />
|[https://sites.google.com/view/zhufeng-math/home Feng Zhu] (UW Madison)<br />
|[[#Feng Zhu| ''Relatively Anosov representations: a dynamical notion of geometric finiteness'']]<br />
|local<br />
|-<br />
|November 7<br />
|[https://sites.google.com/bc.edu/ethan-farber/about-me?authuser=0/ Ethan Farber] (BC)<br />
|[[#Ethan Farber| ''Pseudo-Anosovs of interval type'']]<br />
|Loving<br />
|-<br />
|November 14<br />
|[https://www.math.montana.edu/geyer/ Lukas Geyer] (Montana) <br />
|[[#Lukas Geyer| ''Classification of critically fixed anti-Thurston maps'']]<br />
|Burkart<br />
|-<br />
|November 21<br />
|[http://www.hbaik.org/ Harry Hyungryul Baik] (KAIST)<br />
|[[#Harry Baik| ''Revisit the theory of laminar groups'']]<br />
|Wu<br />
|-<br />
|November 28<br />
|[https://mmontee.people.sites.carleton.edu MurphyKate Montee] (Carleton)<br />
|[[#MurphyKate Montee | ''TBA'']]<br />
|Dymarz<br />
|-<br />
|December 5<br />
|[https://sites.google.com/view/lovingmath/home Marissa Loving] (UW Madison)<br />
|[[#Marissa Loving| ''TBA'']]<br />
|local<br />
|-<br />
|December 12<br />
|[https://scholar.harvard.edu/tinatorkaman/home Tina Torkaman] (Harvard)<br />
|[[#Tina Torkaman| ''TBA'']]<br />
|Uyanik<br />
|}<br />
<br />
== Fall Abstracts ==<br />
<br />
===Jing Tao===<br />
By Nielsen-Thurston classification, every homeomorphism of a surface is isotopic to one of three types: finite order, reducible, or pseudo-Anosov. While there are these three types, it is natural to wonder which type is more prevalent. In any reasonable way to sample matrices in SL(2,Z), irreducible matrices should be generic. One expects something similar for pseudo-Anosov maps. In joint work with Erlandsson and Souto, we define a notion of genericity and show that pseudo-Anosov maps are indeed generic. More precisely, we consider several "norms" on the mapping class group of the surface, and show that the proportion of pseudo-Anosov maps in a ball of radius r tends to 1 as r tends to infinity. The norms can be thought of as the natural analogues of matrix norms on SL(2,Z).<br />
<br />
===Rebekah Palmer===<br />
Studying totally geodesic surfaces has been essential in understanding the geometry and topology of hyperbolic 3-manifolds. Recently, Bader--Fisher--Miller--Stover showed that containing infinitely many such surfaces compels a manifold to be arithmetic. We are hence interested in counting totally geodesic surfaces in hyperbolic 3-manifolds in the finite (possibly zero) case. In joint work with Khánh Lê, we expand an obstruction, due to Calegari, to the existence of these surfaces. On the flipside, we prove the uniqueness of known totally geodesic surfaces by considering their behavior in the universal cover. This talk will explore this progress for both the uniqueness and the absence.<br />
<br />
===Beibei Liu===<br />
The critical exponent is an important numerical invariant of discrete groups acting on negatively curved Hadamard manifolds, Gromov hyperbolic spaces, and higher-rank symmetric spaces. In this talk, I will focus on discrete groups acting on hyperbolic spaces (i.e., Kleinian groups), which is a family of important examples of these three types of spaces. In particular, I will review the classical result relating the critical exponent to the Hausdorff dimension using the Patterson-Sullivan theory and introduce new results about Kleinian groups with small or large critical exponents. <br />
<br />
===Grace Work===<br />
The shrinking target problem characterizes when there is a full measure set of points that hit a decreasing family of target sets under a given flow. This question is closely related to the Borel Cantilli lemma and also gives rise to logarithm laws. We will examine the discrete shrinking target problem in a general and then more specifically in the setting of Teichmuller flow on the moduli space of unit-area quadratic differentials.<br />
<br />
===Jean Pierre Mutanguha===<br />
The Nielsen–Thurston theory of surface homeomorphisms can be thought of as a surface analogue to the Jordan Canonical Form. I will discuss my progress in developing a similar canonical form for free group automorphisms. (Un)Fortunately, free group automorphisms can have arbitrarily complicated behaviour. This is a significant barrier to translating arguments that worked for surfaces into the free group setting; nevertheless, the overall ideas/strategies do translate!<br />
<br />
===Anthony Sanchez===<br />
Platonic solids have been studied for thousands of years. By unfolding a platonic solid we can associate to it a translation surface. Interesting information about the underlying platonic solid can be discovered in the cover where more (dynamical and geometric) structure is present. The translation covers we consider have a large group of symmetries that leave the global composition of the surface unchanged. However, the local structure of paths on the surface is often sensitive to these symmetries. The Kontsevich-Zorich mondromy group keeps track of this sensitivity. <br />
<br />
In joint work with R. Gutiérrez-Romo and D. Lee, we study the monodromy groups of translation covers of some platonic solids and show that the Zariski closure is a power of SL(2,R). We prove our results by finding generators for the monodromy groups, using a theorem of Matheus–Yoccoz–Zmiaikou that provides constraints on the Zariski closure of the groups (to obtain an "upper bound"), and analyzing the dimension of the Lie algebra of the Zariski closure of the group (to obtain a "lower bound").<br />
<br />
===Feng Zhu===<br />
<br />
Putting hyperbolic metrics on a finite-type surface S gives us linear representations of the fundamental group of S into PSL(2,R) with many nice geometric and dynamical properties: for instance they are discrete and faithful, and in fact stably quasi-isometrically embedded.<br />
<br />
In this talk, we will introduce (relatively) Anosov representations, which generalise this picture to higher-rank Lie groups such as PSL(d,R) for d>2, giving us a class of (relatively) hyperbolic subgroups there with similarly good geometric and dynamical properties.<br />
<br />
This is mostly joint work with Andrew Zimmer.<br />
<br />
===Ethan Farber===<br />
<br />
A pseudo-Anosov (pA) is a homeomorphism of a compact connected surface S that, away from a finite set of points, acts locally as a linear map with one expanding and one contracting eigendirection. Ubiquitous yet mysterious, pAs have fascinated low-dimensional topologists and dynamicists for the past forty years. We show that any pA on the sphere whose associated quadratic differential has at most one zero, admits an invariant train track whose expanding subgraph is an interval. Concretely, such a pA has the dynamics of an interval map. As an application, we recover a uniform lower bound on the entropy of these pAs originally due to Boissy-Lanneau. Time permitting, we will also discuss potential applications to a question of Fried. This is joint work with Karl Winsor.<br />
<br />
===Lukas Geyer===<br />
<br />
Recently there has been an increased interest in complex dynamics of orientation-reversing maps, in particular in the context of gravitational lensing and as an analogue of reflection groups in Sullivan's dictionary between Kleinian groups and dynamics of (anti-)rational maps. Much of the theory parallels the orientation-preserving case, but there are some intriguing differences. In order to deal with the post-critically finite case, we study anti-Thurston maps (orientation-reversing versions of Thurston maps), and prove an orientation-reversing analogue of Thurston's topological classification of post-critically finite rational maps, as well as the canonical decomposition of obstructed maps, following Pilgrim and Selinger. Using these tools, we obtain a combinatorial classification of critically fixed anti-Thurston maps, extending a recently obtained classification of critically fixed anti-rational maps. If time allows, I will explain applications of this classification to gravitational lensing. Most of this is based on joint work with Mikhail Hlushchanka.<br />
<br />
===Harry Baik ===<br />
I will give a brief introduction to laminar groups which are groups of orientation-preserving homeomorphisms of the circle admitting invariant laminations. The term was coined by Calegari and the study of laminar groups was motivated by work of Thurston and Calegari-Dunfield. We present old and new results on laminar groups which tell us when a given laminar group is either fuchsian or Kleinian. This is based on joint work with KyeongRo Kim and Hongtaek Jung.<br />
<br />
===MurphyKate Montee===<br />
<br />
===Marissa Loving===<br />
<br />
===Tina Torkaman===<br />
<br />
<br />
==Spring 2023==<br />
<br />
{| cellpadding="8"<br />
! align="left" |date<br />
! align="left" |speaker<br />
! align="left" |title<br />
! align="left" |host(s)<br />
|-<br />
|January 30<br />
|[http://websites.umich.edu/~blayac/ Pierre-Louis Blayac] (Michigan)<br />
|[[#Pierre-Louis Blayac| ''TBA'']]<br />
|Zhu and Zimmer<br />
|-<br />
|February 6<br />
|[http://www-personal.umich.edu/~kbutt/index.html Karen Butt] (Michigan)<br />
|[[#Karen Butt| ''TBA'']]<br />
|Zimmer<br />
|-<br />
|February 13<br />
|[https://sites.google.com/view/elizabeth-field Elizabeth Field] (Utah)<br />
|[[#Elizabeth Field| ''TBA'']]<br />
|Loving<br />
|-<br />
|February 20<br />
|[https://math.berkeley.edu/~chicheuk/ Chi Cheuk Tsang] (Berkeley)<br />
|[[#Chi Cheuk Tsang| ''TBA'']]<br />
|Loving<br />
|-<br />
|February 27<br />
|[https://www.caglaruyanik.com/home Caglar Uyanik] (UW Madison)<br />
|[[#Caglar Uyanik| ''TBA'']]<br />
|local<br />
|-<br />
|March 6<br />
|[https://filippomazzoli.github.io Filippo Mazzoli] (UVA)<br />
|[[#Filippo Mazzoli| TBA]]<br />
|Zhu<br />
|-<br />
|March 13<br />
|Spring Break, No Seminar<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|March 20<br />
|[https://www.rosemorriswright.com/ Rose Morris-Wright ] (Middlebury)<br />
|[[#Rose Morris-Wright| ''TBA'']]<br />
|Dymarz<br />
|-<br />
|March 27<br />
|[https://www.carolynrabbott.com/ Carolyn Abbott] (Brandeis)<br />
|[[#Carolyn Abbott| ''TBA'']]<br />
|Dymarz and Uyanik<br />
|-<br />
|April 3<br />
|[https://sites.google.com/view/sfairchild/home Samantha Fairchild] (Osnabrück)<br />
|TBA<br />
|Apisa<br />
|-<br />
|April 10<br />
|[https://www.math.utah.edu/~chaika/ Jon Chaika] (Utah)<br />
|[[#Jon Chaika| ''TBA'']]<br />
|Uyanik<br />
|-<br />
|April 17<br />
|[https://sites.google.com/view/mikolaj-fraczyk/home Mikolaj Fraczyk] (Chicago)<br />
|[[#Mikolaj Fraczyk| ''TBA'']]<br />
|Skenderi and Zimmer<br />
|-<br />
||April 24<br />
|[https://sites.google.com/view/tarikaougab/home/ Tarik Aougab] (Haverford)<br />
|[[#Tarik Aougab| ''TBA'']]<br />
|Loving<br />
|-<br />
|May 1<br />
|[https://www.dmartinezgranado.com Didac Martinez-Granado] (UC Davis)<br />
|[[#Didac Martinez-Granado| ''TBA'']]<br />
|Uyanik<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
==Spring Abstracts==<br />
<br />
===Pierre-Louis Blayac===<br />
<br />
===Karen Butt===<br />
<br />
===Elizabeth Field===<br />
<br />
===Chi Cheuk Tsang===<br />
<br />
===Caglar Uyanik===<br />
<br />
===Filippo Mazzoli===<br />
<br />
===Rose Morris-Wright===<br />
<br />
===Carolyn Abbott===<br />
<br />
===Samantha Fairchild===<br />
<br />
===Jon Chaika===<br />
<br />
===Mikolaj Fraczyk===<br />
<br />
===Tarik Aougab===<br />
<br />
===Didac Martinez-Granado===<br />
<br />
== Archive of past Dynamics seminars==<br />
<br />
2021-2022 [[Dynamics_Seminar_2021-2022]]<br />
<br />
2020-2021 [[Dynamics_Seminar_2020-2021]]</div>Cwu367https://wiki.math.wisc.edu/index.php?title=Dynamics_Seminar_2022-2023&diff=24053Dynamics Seminar 2022-20232022-11-15T22:23:01Z<p>Cwu367: /* Harry Baik */</p>
<hr />
<div>The [[Dynamics]] seminar meets in room '''B329 of Van Vleck Hall''' on '''Mondays''' from '''2:30pm - 3:20pm'''. To sign up for the mailing list send an email from your wisc.edu address to dynamics+join@g-groups.wisc.edu. For more information, contact Paul Apisa, Marissa Loving, Caglar Uyanik, or Chenxi Wu. Contact Caglar Uyanik with your wisc email to get the zoom link for virtual talks. <br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
== Fall 2022 ==<br />
<br />
{| cellpadding="8"<br />
!align="left" | date<br />
!align="left" | speaker<br />
!align="left" | title<br />
!align="left" | host(s)<br />
<br />
|-<br />
|September 12<br />
|[https://math.ou.edu/~jing/ Jing Tao] (OU)<br />
|[[#Jing Tao|Genericity of pseudo-Anosov maps]]<br />
|Dymarz and Uyanik<br />
|-<br />
|September 19<br />
|[https://math.temple.edu/~tug67058/ Rebekah Palmer] (Temple)(virtual)<br />
|[[#Rebekah Palmer|Totally geodesic surfaces in knot complements]]<br />
|VIRTUAL<br />
|-<br />
|September 26<br />
|[https://sites.google.com/view/beibei-liu/ Beibei Liu] (MIT)<br />
|[[#Beibei Liu|The critical exponent: old and new]]<br />
| Dymarz<br />
|-<br />
|October 3<br />
|Grace Work (UW-Madison)<br />
|[[#Grace Work |Discretely shrinking targets in moduli space]]<br />
|local<br />
|-<br />
|October 10<br />
|[https://mutanguha.com/ Jean Pierre Mutanguha] (Princeton)<br />
|[[#Jean Pierre Mutanguha| Canonical forms for free group automorphisms]]<br />
|Uyanik<br />
|-<br />
|October 17<br />
|[https://sites.google.com/ucsd.edu/ans032/ Anthony Sanchez] (UCSD)<br />
|[[#Anthony Sanchez | Kontsevich-Zorich monodromy groups of translation covers of some platonic solids]]<br />
|Uyanik<br />
|-<br />
|October 24<br />
|[https://you.stonybrook.edu/aerchenko/ Alena Erchenko] (U Chicago)<br />
|postponed<br />
|Uyanik and Work<br />
|-<br />
|October 31<br />
|[https://sites.google.com/view/zhufeng-math/home Feng Zhu] (UW Madison)<br />
|[[#Feng Zhu| ''Relatively Anosov representations: a dynamical notion of geometric finiteness'']]<br />
|local<br />
|-<br />
|November 7<br />
|[https://sites.google.com/bc.edu/ethan-farber/about-me?authuser=0/ Ethan Farber] (BC)<br />
|[[#Ethan Farber| ''Pseudo-Anosovs of interval type'']]<br />
|Loving<br />
|-<br />
|November 14<br />
|[https://www.math.montana.edu/geyer/ Lukas Geyer] (Montana) <br />
|[[#Lukas Geyer| ''Classification of critically fixed anti-Thurston maps'']]<br />
|Burkart<br />
|-<br />
|November 21<br />
|[http://www.hbaik.org/ Harry Hyungryul Baik] (KAIST)<br />
|[[#Harry Baik| ''collection of separating curves on S_g'']]<br />
|Wu<br />
|-<br />
|November 28<br />
|[https://mmontee.people.sites.carleton.edu MurphyKate Montee] (Carleton)<br />
|[[#MurphyKate Montee | ''TBA'']]<br />
|Dymarz<br />
|-<br />
|December 5<br />
|[https://sites.google.com/view/lovingmath/home Marissa Loving] (UW Madison)<br />
|[[#Marissa Loving| ''TBA'']]<br />
|local<br />
|-<br />
|December 12<br />
|[https://scholar.harvard.edu/tinatorkaman/home Tina Torkaman] (Harvard)<br />
|[[#Tina Torkaman| ''TBA'']]<br />
|Uyanik<br />
|}<br />
<br />
== Fall Abstracts ==<br />
<br />
===Jing Tao===<br />
By Nielsen-Thurston classification, every homeomorphism of a surface is isotopic to one of three types: finite order, reducible, or pseudo-Anosov. While there are these three types, it is natural to wonder which type is more prevalent. In any reasonable way to sample matrices in SL(2,Z), irreducible matrices should be generic. One expects something similar for pseudo-Anosov maps. In joint work with Erlandsson and Souto, we define a notion of genericity and show that pseudo-Anosov maps are indeed generic. More precisely, we consider several "norms" on the mapping class group of the surface, and show that the proportion of pseudo-Anosov maps in a ball of radius r tends to 1 as r tends to infinity. The norms can be thought of as the natural analogues of matrix norms on SL(2,Z).<br />
<br />
===Rebekah Palmer===<br />
Studying totally geodesic surfaces has been essential in understanding the geometry and topology of hyperbolic 3-manifolds. Recently, Bader--Fisher--Miller--Stover showed that containing infinitely many such surfaces compels a manifold to be arithmetic. We are hence interested in counting totally geodesic surfaces in hyperbolic 3-manifolds in the finite (possibly zero) case. In joint work with Khánh Lê, we expand an obstruction, due to Calegari, to the existence of these surfaces. On the flipside, we prove the uniqueness of known totally geodesic surfaces by considering their behavior in the universal cover. This talk will explore this progress for both the uniqueness and the absence.<br />
<br />
===Beibei Liu===<br />
The critical exponent is an important numerical invariant of discrete groups acting on negatively curved Hadamard manifolds, Gromov hyperbolic spaces, and higher-rank symmetric spaces. In this talk, I will focus on discrete groups acting on hyperbolic spaces (i.e., Kleinian groups), which is a family of important examples of these three types of spaces. In particular, I will review the classical result relating the critical exponent to the Hausdorff dimension using the Patterson-Sullivan theory and introduce new results about Kleinian groups with small or large critical exponents. <br />
<br />
===Grace Work===<br />
The shrinking target problem characterizes when there is a full measure set of points that hit a decreasing family of target sets under a given flow. This question is closely related to the Borel Cantilli lemma and also gives rise to logarithm laws. We will examine the discrete shrinking target problem in a general and then more specifically in the setting of Teichmuller flow on the moduli space of unit-area quadratic differentials.<br />
<br />
===Jean Pierre Mutanguha===<br />
The Nielsen–Thurston theory of surface homeomorphisms can be thought of as a surface analogue to the Jordan Canonical Form. I will discuss my progress in developing a similar canonical form for free group automorphisms. (Un)Fortunately, free group automorphisms can have arbitrarily complicated behaviour. This is a significant barrier to translating arguments that worked for surfaces into the free group setting; nevertheless, the overall ideas/strategies do translate!<br />
<br />
===Anthony Sanchez===<br />
Platonic solids have been studied for thousands of years. By unfolding a platonic solid we can associate to it a translation surface. Interesting information about the underlying platonic solid can be discovered in the cover where more (dynamical and geometric) structure is present. The translation covers we consider have a large group of symmetries that leave the global composition of the surface unchanged. However, the local structure of paths on the surface is often sensitive to these symmetries. The Kontsevich-Zorich mondromy group keeps track of this sensitivity. <br />
<br />
In joint work with R. Gutiérrez-Romo and D. Lee, we study the monodromy groups of translation covers of some platonic solids and show that the Zariski closure is a power of SL(2,R). We prove our results by finding generators for the monodromy groups, using a theorem of Matheus–Yoccoz–Zmiaikou that provides constraints on the Zariski closure of the groups (to obtain an "upper bound"), and analyzing the dimension of the Lie algebra of the Zariski closure of the group (to obtain a "lower bound").<br />
<br />
===Feng Zhu===<br />
<br />
Putting hyperbolic metrics on a finite-type surface S gives us linear representations of the fundamental group of S into PSL(2,R) with many nice geometric and dynamical properties: for instance they are discrete and faithful, and in fact stably quasi-isometrically embedded.<br />
<br />
In this talk, we will introduce (relatively) Anosov representations, which generalise this picture to higher-rank Lie groups such as PSL(d,R) for d>2, giving us a class of (relatively) hyperbolic subgroups there with similarly good geometric and dynamical properties.<br />
<br />
This is mostly joint work with Andrew Zimmer.<br />
<br />
===Ethan Farber===<br />
<br />
A pseudo-Anosov (pA) is a homeomorphism of a compact connected surface S that, away from a finite set of points, acts locally as a linear map with one expanding and one contracting eigendirection. Ubiquitous yet mysterious, pAs have fascinated low-dimensional topologists and dynamicists for the past forty years. We show that any pA on the sphere whose associated quadratic differential has at most one zero, admits an invariant train track whose expanding subgraph is an interval. Concretely, such a pA has the dynamics of an interval map. As an application, we recover a uniform lower bound on the entropy of these pAs originally due to Boissy-Lanneau. Time permitting, we will also discuss potential applications to a question of Fried. This is joint work with Karl Winsor.<br />
<br />
===Lukas Geyer===<br />
<br />
Recently there has been an increased interest in complex dynamics of orientation-reversing maps, in particular in the context of gravitational lensing and as an analogue of reflection groups in Sullivan's dictionary between Kleinian groups and dynamics of (anti-)rational maps. Much of the theory parallels the orientation-preserving case, but there are some intriguing differences. In order to deal with the post-critically finite case, we study anti-Thurston maps (orientation-reversing versions of Thurston maps), and prove an orientation-reversing analogue of Thurston's topological classification of post-critically finite rational maps, as well as the canonical decomposition of obstructed maps, following Pilgrim and Selinger. Using these tools, we obtain a combinatorial classification of critically fixed anti-Thurston maps, extending a recently obtained classification of critically fixed anti-rational maps. If time allows, I will explain applications of this classification to gravitational lensing. Most of this is based on joint work with Mikhail Hlushchanka.<br />
<br />
===Harry Baik ===<br />
I will give a brief introduction to laminar groups which are groups of orientation-preserving homeomorphisms of the circle admitting invariant laminations. The term was coined by Calegari and the study of laminar groups was motivated by work of Thurston and Calegari-Dunfield. We present old and new results on laminar groups which tell us when a given laminar group is either fuchsian or Kleinian. This is based on joint work with KyeongRo Kim and Hongtaek Jung.<br />
<br />
===MurphyKate Montee===<br />
<br />
===Marissa Loving===<br />
<br />
===Tina Torkaman===<br />
<br />
<br />
==Spring 2023==<br />
<br />
{| cellpadding="8"<br />
! align="left" |date<br />
! align="left" |speaker<br />
! align="left" |title<br />
! align="left" |host(s)<br />
|-<br />
|January 30<br />
|[http://websites.umich.edu/~blayac/ Pierre-Louis Blayac] (Michigan)<br />
|[[#Pierre-Louis Blayac| ''TBA'']]<br />
|Zhu and Zimmer<br />
|-<br />
|February 6<br />
|[http://www-personal.umich.edu/~kbutt/index.html Karen Butt] (Michigan)<br />
|[[#Karen Butt| ''TBA'']]<br />
|Zimmer<br />
|-<br />
|February 13<br />
|[https://sites.google.com/view/elizabeth-field Elizabeth Field] (Utah)<br />
|[[#Elizabeth Field| ''TBA'']]<br />
|Loving<br />
|-<br />
|February 20<br />
|[https://math.berkeley.edu/~chicheuk/ Chi Cheuk Tsang] (Berkeley)<br />
|[[#Chi Cheuk Tsang| ''TBA'']]<br />
|Loving<br />
|-<br />
|February 27<br />
|[https://www.caglaruyanik.com/home Caglar Uyanik] (UW Madison)<br />
|[[#Caglar Uyanik| ''TBA'']]<br />
|local<br />
|-<br />
|March 6<br />
|[https://filippomazzoli.github.io Filippo Mazzoli] (UVA)<br />
|[[#Filippo Mazzoli| TBA]]<br />
|Zhu<br />
|-<br />
|March 13<br />
|Spring Break, No Seminar<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|March 20<br />
|[https://www.rosemorriswright.com/ Rose Morris-Wright ] (Middlebury)<br />
|[[#Rose Morris-Wright| ''TBA'']]<br />
|Dymarz<br />
|-<br />
|March 27<br />
|[https://www.carolynrabbott.com/ Carolyn Abbott] (Brandeis)<br />
|[[#Carolyn Abbott| ''TBA'']]<br />
|Dymarz and Uyanik<br />
|-<br />
|April 3<br />
|[https://sites.google.com/view/sfairchild/home Samantha Fairchild] (Osnabrück)<br />
|TBA<br />
|Apisa<br />
|-<br />
|April 10<br />
|[https://www.math.utah.edu/~chaika/ Jon Chaika] (Utah)<br />
|[[#Jon Chaika| ''TBA'']]<br />
|Uyanik<br />
|-<br />
|April 17<br />
|[https://sites.google.com/view/mikolaj-fraczyk/home Mikolaj Fraczyk] (Chicago)<br />
|[[#Mikolaj Fraczyk| ''TBA'']]<br />
|Skenderi and Zimmer<br />
|-<br />
||April 24<br />
|[https://sites.google.com/view/tarikaougab/home/ Tarik Aougab] (Haverford)<br />
|[[#Tarik Aougab| ''TBA'']]<br />
|Loving<br />
|-<br />
|May 1<br />
|open<br />
|[[#TBA| ''TBA'']]<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
==Spring Abstracts==<br />
<br />
===Pierre-Louis Blayac===<br />
<br />
===Karen Butt===<br />
<br />
===Elizabeth Field===<br />
<br />
===Chi Cheuk Tsang===<br />
<br />
===Caglar Uyanik===<br />
<br />
===Filippo Mazzoli===<br />
<br />
===Rose Morris-Wright===<br />
<br />
===Carolyn Abbott===<br />
<br />
===Samantha Fairchild===<br />
<br />
===Jon Chaika===<br />
<br />
===Mikolaj Fraczyk===<br />
<br />
===Tarik Aougab===<br />
<br />
== Archive of past Dynamics seminars==<br />
<br />
2021-2022 [[Dynamics_Seminar_2021-2022]]<br />
<br />
2020-2021 [[Dynamics_Seminar_2020-2021]]</div>Cwu367https://wiki.math.wisc.edu/index.php?title=Dynamics_Seminar_2022-2023&diff=24052Dynamics Seminar 2022-20232022-11-15T22:22:22Z<p>Cwu367: /* Fall 2022 */</p>
<hr />
<div>The [[Dynamics]] seminar meets in room '''B329 of Van Vleck Hall''' on '''Mondays''' from '''2:30pm - 3:20pm'''. To sign up for the mailing list send an email from your wisc.edu address to dynamics+join@g-groups.wisc.edu. For more information, contact Paul Apisa, Marissa Loving, Caglar Uyanik, or Chenxi Wu. Contact Caglar Uyanik with your wisc email to get the zoom link for virtual talks. <br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
== Fall 2022 ==<br />
<br />
{| cellpadding="8"<br />
!align="left" | date<br />
!align="left" | speaker<br />
!align="left" | title<br />
!align="left" | host(s)<br />
<br />
|-<br />
|September 12<br />
|[https://math.ou.edu/~jing/ Jing Tao] (OU)<br />
|[[#Jing Tao|Genericity of pseudo-Anosov maps]]<br />
|Dymarz and Uyanik<br />
|-<br />
|September 19<br />
|[https://math.temple.edu/~tug67058/ Rebekah Palmer] (Temple)(virtual)<br />
|[[#Rebekah Palmer|Totally geodesic surfaces in knot complements]]<br />
|VIRTUAL<br />
|-<br />
|September 26<br />
|[https://sites.google.com/view/beibei-liu/ Beibei Liu] (MIT)<br />
|[[#Beibei Liu|The critical exponent: old and new]]<br />
| Dymarz<br />
|-<br />
|October 3<br />
|Grace Work (UW-Madison)<br />
|[[#Grace Work |Discretely shrinking targets in moduli space]]<br />
|local<br />
|-<br />
|October 10<br />
|[https://mutanguha.com/ Jean Pierre Mutanguha] (Princeton)<br />
|[[#Jean Pierre Mutanguha| Canonical forms for free group automorphisms]]<br />
|Uyanik<br />
|-<br />
|October 17<br />
|[https://sites.google.com/ucsd.edu/ans032/ Anthony Sanchez] (UCSD)<br />
|[[#Anthony Sanchez | Kontsevich-Zorich monodromy groups of translation covers of some platonic solids]]<br />
|Uyanik<br />
|-<br />
|October 24<br />
|[https://you.stonybrook.edu/aerchenko/ Alena Erchenko] (U Chicago)<br />
|postponed<br />
|Uyanik and Work<br />
|-<br />
|October 31<br />
|[https://sites.google.com/view/zhufeng-math/home Feng Zhu] (UW Madison)<br />
|[[#Feng Zhu| ''Relatively Anosov representations: a dynamical notion of geometric finiteness'']]<br />
|local<br />
|-<br />
|November 7<br />
|[https://sites.google.com/bc.edu/ethan-farber/about-me?authuser=0/ Ethan Farber] (BC)<br />
|[[#Ethan Farber| ''Pseudo-Anosovs of interval type'']]<br />
|Loving<br />
|-<br />
|November 14<br />
|[https://www.math.montana.edu/geyer/ Lukas Geyer] (Montana) <br />
|[[#Lukas Geyer| ''Classification of critically fixed anti-Thurston maps'']]<br />
|Burkart<br />
|-<br />
|November 21<br />
|[http://www.hbaik.org/ Harry Hyungryul Baik] (KAIST)<br />
|[[#Harry Baik| ''collection of separating curves on S_g'']]<br />
|Wu<br />
|-<br />
|November 28<br />
|[https://mmontee.people.sites.carleton.edu MurphyKate Montee] (Carleton)<br />
|[[#MurphyKate Montee | ''TBA'']]<br />
|Dymarz<br />
|-<br />
|December 5<br />
|[https://sites.google.com/view/lovingmath/home Marissa Loving] (UW Madison)<br />
|[[#Marissa Loving| ''TBA'']]<br />
|local<br />
|-<br />
|December 12<br />
|[https://scholar.harvard.edu/tinatorkaman/home Tina Torkaman] (Harvard)<br />
|[[#Tina Torkaman| ''TBA'']]<br />
|Uyanik<br />
|}<br />
<br />
== Fall Abstracts ==<br />
<br />
===Jing Tao===<br />
By Nielsen-Thurston classification, every homeomorphism of a surface is isotopic to one of three types: finite order, reducible, or pseudo-Anosov. While there are these three types, it is natural to wonder which type is more prevalent. In any reasonable way to sample matrices in SL(2,Z), irreducible matrices should be generic. One expects something similar for pseudo-Anosov maps. In joint work with Erlandsson and Souto, we define a notion of genericity and show that pseudo-Anosov maps are indeed generic. More precisely, we consider several "norms" on the mapping class group of the surface, and show that the proportion of pseudo-Anosov maps in a ball of radius r tends to 1 as r tends to infinity. The norms can be thought of as the natural analogues of matrix norms on SL(2,Z).<br />
<br />
===Rebekah Palmer===<br />
Studying totally geodesic surfaces has been essential in understanding the geometry and topology of hyperbolic 3-manifolds. Recently, Bader--Fisher--Miller--Stover showed that containing infinitely many such surfaces compels a manifold to be arithmetic. We are hence interested in counting totally geodesic surfaces in hyperbolic 3-manifolds in the finite (possibly zero) case. In joint work with Khánh Lê, we expand an obstruction, due to Calegari, to the existence of these surfaces. On the flipside, we prove the uniqueness of known totally geodesic surfaces by considering their behavior in the universal cover. This talk will explore this progress for both the uniqueness and the absence.<br />
<br />
===Beibei Liu===<br />
The critical exponent is an important numerical invariant of discrete groups acting on negatively curved Hadamard manifolds, Gromov hyperbolic spaces, and higher-rank symmetric spaces. In this talk, I will focus on discrete groups acting on hyperbolic spaces (i.e., Kleinian groups), which is a family of important examples of these three types of spaces. In particular, I will review the classical result relating the critical exponent to the Hausdorff dimension using the Patterson-Sullivan theory and introduce new results about Kleinian groups with small or large critical exponents. <br />
<br />
===Grace Work===<br />
The shrinking target problem characterizes when there is a full measure set of points that hit a decreasing family of target sets under a given flow. This question is closely related to the Borel Cantilli lemma and also gives rise to logarithm laws. We will examine the discrete shrinking target problem in a general and then more specifically in the setting of Teichmuller flow on the moduli space of unit-area quadratic differentials.<br />
<br />
===Jean Pierre Mutanguha===<br />
The Nielsen–Thurston theory of surface homeomorphisms can be thought of as a surface analogue to the Jordan Canonical Form. I will discuss my progress in developing a similar canonical form for free group automorphisms. (Un)Fortunately, free group automorphisms can have arbitrarily complicated behaviour. This is a significant barrier to translating arguments that worked for surfaces into the free group setting; nevertheless, the overall ideas/strategies do translate!<br />
<br />
===Anthony Sanchez===<br />
Platonic solids have been studied for thousands of years. By unfolding a platonic solid we can associate to it a translation surface. Interesting information about the underlying platonic solid can be discovered in the cover where more (dynamical and geometric) structure is present. The translation covers we consider have a large group of symmetries that leave the global composition of the surface unchanged. However, the local structure of paths on the surface is often sensitive to these symmetries. The Kontsevich-Zorich mondromy group keeps track of this sensitivity. <br />
<br />
In joint work with R. Gutiérrez-Romo and D. Lee, we study the monodromy groups of translation covers of some platonic solids and show that the Zariski closure is a power of SL(2,R). We prove our results by finding generators for the monodromy groups, using a theorem of Matheus–Yoccoz–Zmiaikou that provides constraints on the Zariski closure of the groups (to obtain an "upper bound"), and analyzing the dimension of the Lie algebra of the Zariski closure of the group (to obtain a "lower bound").<br />
<br />
===Feng Zhu===<br />
<br />
Putting hyperbolic metrics on a finite-type surface S gives us linear representations of the fundamental group of S into PSL(2,R) with many nice geometric and dynamical properties: for instance they are discrete and faithful, and in fact stably quasi-isometrically embedded.<br />
<br />
In this talk, we will introduce (relatively) Anosov representations, which generalise this picture to higher-rank Lie groups such as PSL(d,R) for d>2, giving us a class of (relatively) hyperbolic subgroups there with similarly good geometric and dynamical properties.<br />
<br />
This is mostly joint work with Andrew Zimmer.<br />
<br />
===Ethan Farber===<br />
<br />
A pseudo-Anosov (pA) is a homeomorphism of a compact connected surface S that, away from a finite set of points, acts locally as a linear map with one expanding and one contracting eigendirection. Ubiquitous yet mysterious, pAs have fascinated low-dimensional topologists and dynamicists for the past forty years. We show that any pA on the sphere whose associated quadratic differential has at most one zero, admits an invariant train track whose expanding subgraph is an interval. Concretely, such a pA has the dynamics of an interval map. As an application, we recover a uniform lower bound on the entropy of these pAs originally due to Boissy-Lanneau. Time permitting, we will also discuss potential applications to a question of Fried. This is joint work with Karl Winsor.<br />
<br />
===Lukas Geyer===<br />
<br />
Recently there has been an increased interest in complex dynamics of orientation-reversing maps, in particular in the context of gravitational lensing and as an analogue of reflection groups in Sullivan's dictionary between Kleinian groups and dynamics of (anti-)rational maps. Much of the theory parallels the orientation-preserving case, but there are some intriguing differences. In order to deal with the post-critically finite case, we study anti-Thurston maps (orientation-reversing versions of Thurston maps), and prove an orientation-reversing analogue of Thurston's topological classification of post-critically finite rational maps, as well as the canonical decomposition of obstructed maps, following Pilgrim and Selinger. Using these tools, we obtain a combinatorial classification of critically fixed anti-Thurston maps, extending a recently obtained classification of critically fixed anti-rational maps. If time allows, I will explain applications of this classification to gravitational lensing. Most of this is based on joint work with Mikhail Hlushchanka.<br />
<br />
===Harry Baik ===<br />
<br />
===MurphyKate Montee===<br />
<br />
===Marissa Loving===<br />
<br />
===Tina Torkaman===<br />
<br />
<br />
==Spring 2023==<br />
<br />
{| cellpadding="8"<br />
! align="left" |date<br />
! align="left" |speaker<br />
! align="left" |title<br />
! align="left" |host(s)<br />
|-<br />
|January 30<br />
|[http://websites.umich.edu/~blayac/ Pierre-Louis Blayac] (Michigan)<br />
|[[#Pierre-Louis Blayac| ''TBA'']]<br />
|Zhu and Zimmer<br />
|-<br />
|February 6<br />
|[http://www-personal.umich.edu/~kbutt/index.html Karen Butt] (Michigan)<br />
|[[#Karen Butt| ''TBA'']]<br />
|Zimmer<br />
|-<br />
|February 13<br />
|[https://sites.google.com/view/elizabeth-field Elizabeth Field] (Utah)<br />
|[[#Elizabeth Field| ''TBA'']]<br />
|Loving<br />
|-<br />
|February 20<br />
|[https://math.berkeley.edu/~chicheuk/ Chi Cheuk Tsang] (Berkeley)<br />
|[[#Chi Cheuk Tsang| ''TBA'']]<br />
|Loving<br />
|-<br />
|February 27<br />
|[https://www.caglaruyanik.com/home Caglar Uyanik] (UW Madison)<br />
|[[#Caglar Uyanik| ''TBA'']]<br />
|local<br />
|-<br />
|March 6<br />
|[https://filippomazzoli.github.io Filippo Mazzoli] (UVA)<br />
|[[#Filippo Mazzoli| TBA]]<br />
|Zhu<br />
|-<br />
|March 13<br />
|Spring Break, No Seminar<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|March 20<br />
|[https://www.rosemorriswright.com/ Rose Morris-Wright ] (Middlebury)<br />
|[[#Rose Morris-Wright| ''TBA'']]<br />
|Dymarz<br />
|-<br />
|March 27<br />
|[https://www.carolynrabbott.com/ Carolyn Abbott] (Brandeis)<br />
|[[#Carolyn Abbott| ''TBA'']]<br />
|Dymarz and Uyanik<br />
|-<br />
|April 3<br />
|[https://sites.google.com/view/sfairchild/home Samantha Fairchild] (Osnabrück)<br />
|TBA<br />
|Apisa<br />
|-<br />
|April 10<br />
|[https://www.math.utah.edu/~chaika/ Jon Chaika] (Utah)<br />
|[[#Jon Chaika| ''TBA'']]<br />
|Uyanik<br />
|-<br />
|April 17<br />
|[https://sites.google.com/view/mikolaj-fraczyk/home Mikolaj Fraczyk] (Chicago)<br />
|[[#Mikolaj Fraczyk| ''TBA'']]<br />
|Skenderi and Zimmer<br />
|-<br />
||April 24<br />
|[https://sites.google.com/view/tarikaougab/home/ Tarik Aougab] (Haverford)<br />
|[[#Tarik Aougab| ''TBA'']]<br />
|Loving<br />
|-<br />
|May 1<br />
|open<br />
|[[#TBA| ''TBA'']]<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
==Spring Abstracts==<br />
<br />
===Pierre-Louis Blayac===<br />
<br />
===Karen Butt===<br />
<br />
===Elizabeth Field===<br />
<br />
===Chi Cheuk Tsang===<br />
<br />
===Caglar Uyanik===<br />
<br />
===Filippo Mazzoli===<br />
<br />
===Rose Morris-Wright===<br />
<br />
===Carolyn Abbott===<br />
<br />
===Samantha Fairchild===<br />
<br />
===Jon Chaika===<br />
<br />
===Mikolaj Fraczyk===<br />
<br />
===Tarik Aougab===<br />
<br />
== Archive of past Dynamics seminars==<br />
<br />
2021-2022 [[Dynamics_Seminar_2021-2022]]<br />
<br />
2020-2021 [[Dynamics_Seminar_2020-2021]]</div>Cwu367https://wiki.math.wisc.edu/index.php?title=Dynamics_Seminar_2022-2023&diff=23336Dynamics Seminar 2022-20232022-07-17T15:01:55Z<p>Cwu367: </p>
<hr />
<div>The [[Dynamics]] seminar meets in room '''B309 of Van Vleck Hall''' on '''Mondays''' from '''2:30pm - 3:20pm'''. To sign up for the mailing list send an email from your wisc.edu address to dynamics+join@g-groups.wisc.edu. For more information, contact Paul Apisa, Marissa Loving, Caglar Uyanik, or Chenxi Wu. <br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
== Fall 2022 ==<br />
<br />
{| cellpadding="8"<br />
!align="left" | date<br />
!align="left" | speaker<br />
!align="left" | title<br />
!align="left" | host(s)<br />
<br />
|-<br />
|September 12<br />
|[https://math.ou.edu/~jing/ Jing Tao] (OU)<br />
|[[# Jing Tao (OU) | ''TBA'']]<br />
|Dymarz and Uyanik<br />
|-<br />
|September 19<br />
|[https://math.temple.edu/~tug67058/ Rebekah Palmer] (Temple)[VIRTUAL]<br />
|[[# Rebekah Palmer (Temple)| ''TBA'']]<br />
|Loving<br />
|-<br />
|September 26<br />
|TBA<br />
|[[# TBA | ''TBA'']]<br />
|<br />
<br />
|-<br />
|October 3<br />
|[https://sites.google.com/view/beibei-liu/ Beibei Liu] (MIT)<br />
|[[# Beibei Liu (Georgia Tech) | ''TBA'']]<br />
| Dymarz<br />
|-<br />
|October 10<br />
|[https://mutanguha.com/ Jean Pierre Mutanguha] (Princeton)<br />
|[[# Jean Pierre Mutanguha (Princeton) | ''TBA'']]<br />
|Uyanik<br />
|-<br />
|October 17<br />
|[https://sites.google.com/ucsd.edu/ans032/ Anthony Sanchez] (UCSD)<br />
|[[# Anthony Sanchez (UCSD)| ''TBA'']]<br />
|Uyanik<br />
|-<br />
|October 24<br />
|[https://you.stonybrook.edu/aerchenko/ Alena Erchenko] (Stony Brook)<br />
|[[# Alena Erchenko| ''TBA'']]<br />
|Uyanik and Work<br />
|-<br />
|October 31<br />
|TBA<br />
|[[# TBA| ''TBA'']]<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|November 7<br />
|[https://sites.google.com/bc.edu/ethan-farber/about-me?authuser=0/ Ethan Farber] (BC)<br />
|[[# Ethan Farber (BC)| ''TBA'']]<br />
|Loving<br />
|-<br />
|November 14<br />
|TBA<br />
|[[# TBA| ''TBA'']]<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|November 21<br />
|Harry Baik (KAIST)<br />
|[[# TBA| ''TBA'']]<br />
|Wu<br />
|-<br />
|November 28<br />
|TBA<br />
|[[# TBA| ''TBA'']]<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|December 5<br />
|TBA<br />
|[[# TBA| ''TBA'']]<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|December 12<br />
|TBA<br />
|[[# TBA| ''TBA'']]<br />
|<br />
|}<br />
<br />
== Fall Abstracts ==<br />
<br />
===Jing Tao===<br />
<br />
===Rebekah Palmer===<br />
<br />
===Beibei Liu===<br />
<br />
===Jean Pierre Mutanguha===<br />
<br />
===Anthony Sanchez===<br />
<br />
===Alena Erchenko===<br />
<br />
===Ethan Farber===<br />
<br />
== Spring 2023 ==<br />
<br />
{| cellpadding="8"<br />
!align="left" | date<br />
!align="left" | speaker<br />
!align="left" | title<br />
!align="left" | host(s)<br />
|-<br />
|January 30<br />
|TBA<br />
|[[TBA| ''TBA'']]<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|March 27<br />
|[https://www.carolynrabbott.com/ Carolyn Abbott] (Brandeis)<br />
|[[# Carolyn Abbott (Brandeis) | ''TBA'']]<br />
|Dymarz and Uyanik<br />
|-<br />
|April 24<br />
|Priyam Patel (Utah)<br />
|[[# Priyam Patel (Utah) | TBA ]]<br />
|Loving and Uyanik<br />
|}<br />
<br />
== Spring Abstracts ==<br />
<br />
===Carolyn Abbott===<br />
<br />
===Priyam Patel===<br />
<br />
== Archive of past Dynamics seminars ==<br />
<br />
2021-2022 [[Dynamics_Seminar_2021-2022]]<br />
<br />
2020-2021 [[Dynamics_Seminar_2020-2021]]</div>Cwu367https://wiki.math.wisc.edu/index.php?title=Dynamics_Seminar_2022-2023&diff=23335Dynamics Seminar 2022-20232022-07-17T15:00:18Z<p>Cwu367: /* Fall 2022 */</p>
<hr />
<div>The [[Dynamics]] seminar meets in room '''B309 of Van Vleck Hall''' on '''Mondays''' from '''2:30pm - 3:20pm'''. To sign up for the mailing list send an email from your wisc.edu address to dynamics+join@g-groups.wisc.edu. For more information, contact Paul Apisa, Marissa Loving, Caglar Uyanik, or Chenxi Wu. <br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
== Fall 2022 ==<br />
<br />
{| cellpadding="8"<br />
!align="left" | date<br />
!align="left" | speaker<br />
!align="left" | title<br />
!align="left" | host(s)<br />
<br />
|-<br />
|September 12<br />
|[https://math.ou.edu/~jing/ Jing Tao] (OU)<br />
|[[# Jing Tao (OU) | ''TBA'']]<br />
|Dymarz and Uyanik<br />
|-<br />
|September 19<br />
|[https://math.temple.edu/~tug67058/ Rebekah Palmer] (Temple)[VIRTUAL]<br />
|[[# Rebekah Palmer (Temple)| ''TBA'']]<br />
|Loving<br />
|-<br />
|September 26<br />
|TBA<br />
|[[# TBA | ''TBA'']]<br />
|<br />
<br />
|-<br />
|October 3<br />
|[https://sites.google.com/view/beibei-liu/ Beibei Liu] (MIT)<br />
|[[# Beibei Liu (Georgia Tech) | ''TBA'']]<br />
| Dymarz<br />
|-<br />
|October 10<br />
|[https://mutanguha.com/ Jean Pierre Mutanguha] (Princeton)<br />
|[[# Jean Pierre Mutanguha (Princeton) | ''TBA'']]<br />
|Uyanik<br />
|-<br />
|October 17<br />
|[https://sites.google.com/ucsd.edu/ans032/ Anthony Sanchez] (UCSD)<br />
|[[# Anthony Sanchez (UCSD)| ''TBA'']]<br />
|Uyanik<br />
|-<br />
|October 24<br />
|[https://you.stonybrook.edu/aerchenko/ Alena Erchenko] (Stony Brook)<br />
|[[# Alena Erchenko| ''TBA'']]<br />
|Uyanik and Work<br />
|-<br />
|October 31<br />
|TBA<br />
|[[# TBA| ''TBA'']]<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|November 7<br />
|[https://sites.google.com/bc.edu/ethan-farber/about-me?authuser=0/ Ethan Farber] (BC)<br />
|[[# Ethan Farber (BC)| ''TBA'']]<br />
|Loving<br />
|-<br />
|November 14<br />
|TBA<br />
|[[# TBA| ''TBA'']]<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|November 21<br />
|Harry Baik<br />
|[[# TBA| ''TBA'']]<br />
|Wu<br />
|-<br />
|November 28<br />
|TBA<br />
|[[# TBA| ''TBA'']]<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|December 5<br />
|TBA<br />
|[[# TBA| ''TBA'']]<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|December 12<br />
|TBA<br />
|[[# TBA| ''TBA'']]<br />
|<br />
|}<br />
<br />
== Fall Abstracts ==<br />
<br />
===Jing Tao===<br />
<br />
===Rebekah Palmer===<br />
<br />
===Beibei Liu===<br />
<br />
===Jean Pierre Mutanguha===<br />
<br />
===Anthony Sanchez===<br />
<br />
===Alena Erchenko===<br />
<br />
===Ethan Farber===<br />
<br />
== Spring 2023 ==<br />
<br />
{| cellpadding="8"<br />
!align="left" | date<br />
!align="left" | speaker<br />
!align="left" | title<br />
!align="left" | host(s)<br />
|-<br />
|January 30<br />
|TBA<br />
|[[TBA| ''TBA'']]<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|March 27<br />
|[https://www.carolynrabbott.com/ Carolyn Abbott] (Brandeis)<br />
|[[# Carolyn Abbott (Brandeis) | ''TBA'']]<br />
|Dymarz and Uyanik<br />
|-<br />
|April 24<br />
|Priyam Patel (Utah)<br />
|[[# Priyam Patel (Utah) | TBA ]]<br />
|Loving and Uyanik<br />
|}<br />
<br />
== Spring Abstracts ==<br />
<br />
===Carolyn Abbott===<br />
<br />
===Priyam Patel===<br />
<br />
== Archive of past Dynamics seminars ==<br />
<br />
2021-2022 [[Dynamics_Seminar_2021-2022]]<br />
<br />
2020-2021 [[Dynamics_Seminar_2020-2021]]</div>Cwu367https://wiki.math.wisc.edu/index.php?title=Dynamics_Seminar_2021-2022&diff=21980Dynamics Seminar 2021-20222021-10-21T16:27:01Z<p>Cwu367: /* Fall 2021 */</p>
<hr />
<div>The [[Dynamics]] seminar meets in room '''901 of Van Vleck Hall''' on '''Mondays''' from '''2:30pm - 3:20pm'''. To sign up for the mailing list send an email from your wisc.edu address to dynamics+join@g-groups.wisc.edu. For more information, contact Caglar Uyanik or Chenxi Wu.<br />
<br />
[[Image:Hawk.jpg|thumb|300px]]<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
== Fall 2021 ==<br />
<br />
{| cellpadding="8"<br />
!align="left" | date<br />
!align="left" | speaker<br />
!align="left" | title<br />
!align="left" | host(s)<br />
<br />
|-<br />
|Sep. 13<br />
|[https://sites.tufts.edu/natefisher/ Nate Fisher] (UW Madison) <br />
|[[# Nate Fisher (UW Madison) | "Boundaries, random walks, and nilpotent groups"]]<br />
| local<br />
|-<br />
|Sep. 20<br />
|[https://www.caglaruyanik.com/ Caglar Uyanik] (UW Madison)<br />
|[[# Caglar Uyanik (UW Madison) | "Dynamics on currents and applications to free group automorphisms"]]<br />
|local<br />
|-<br />
|Sep. 27<br />
|[https://michu.people.uic.edu/ Michelle Chu] (UIC)<br />
|[[# Michelle Chu (UIC) | "Prescribed virtual torsion in the homology of 3-manifolds"]]<br />
|caglar<br />
|-<br />
|Oct. 4<br />
|[https://www.math.utah.edu/~khalil/ Osama Khalil] (Utah)<br />
|[[# Osama Khalil (Utah) | "Generalized Hecke Operators and Mahler’s Problem in Diophantine Approximation"]]<br />
|caglar<br />
|-<br />
|Oct. 11<br />
|[https://web.ma.utexas.edu/users/weisman/ Theodore Weisman] (UT Austin)<br />
|[[# Theodore Weisman (UT Austin) | "Relative Anosov representations and convex projective structures"]]<br />
|zimmer<br />
|-<br />
|Oct. 18<br />
|Grace Work (UW Madison)<br />
|[[# Grace Work (UW Madison) | "Parametrizing transversals to horocycle flow"]]<br />
|local<br />
|-<br />
|Oct. 25<br />
|Chenxi Wu (UW Madison)<br />
|[[# Chenxi Wu (UW Madison) | "Galois conjugates of exponents of quadratic core entropy"]]<br />
|local<br />
|-<br />
|Nov. 1<br />
|Jack Burkart (UW Madison)<br />
|TBA<br />
|local<br />
|-<br />
<br />
|Nov. 8<br />
|[https://faculty.washington.edu/jathreya/ Jayadev Athreya] (UW Seattle)<br />
|[[# Jayadev Athreya (UW Seattle) | "Stable Random Fields, Patterson-Sullivan Measures, and Extremal Cocycle Growth"]]<br />
|caglar and grace<br />
|-<br />
|Nov. 15<br />
|[http://math.utoledo.edu/~fgultepe/ Funda Gültepe] (U Toledo)<br />
|[[# Funda Gültepe (U Toledo) | "TBA"]]<br />
|caglar<br />
|-<br />
|Nov. 22<br />
|[https://sites.google.com/view/jonah-gaster/home Jonah Gaster] (UW Milwaukee)<br />
|[[# Jonah Gaster (UWM) | "TBA"]]<br />
|caglar<br />
|-<br />
|Nov. 29<br />
|[https://sites.google.com/view/chloe-avery/home Chloe Avery] (U Chicago)<br />
|[[# Chloe Avery (U Chicago) | "TBA"]]<br />
|Dymarz<br />
|-<br />
|Dec. 6<br />
|open<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|}<br />
<br />
== Abstracts ==<br />
<br />
===Nate Fisher (UW Madison)===<br />
''Boundaries, random walks, and nilpotent groups''<br />
<br />
In this talk, we will discuss boundaries and random walks in the Heisenberg group. We will discuss a class of sub-Finsler metrics on the Heisenberg group which arise as the asymptotic cones of word metrics on the integer Heisenberg group and describe new results on the boundaries of these polygonal sub-Finsler metrics. After that, we will explore experimental work to examine the asymptotic behavior of random walks in this group. Parts of this work are joint with Sebastiano Nicolussi Golo.<br />
<br />
===Caglar Uyanik (UW Madison)===<br />
''Dynamics on currents and applications to free group automorphisms''<br />
<br />
Currents are measure theoretic generalizations of conjugacy classes on free groups, and play an important role in various low-dimensional geometry questions. I will talk about the dynamics of certain "generic" elements of Out(F) on the space of currents, and explain how it reflects on the algebraic structure of the group. <br />
<br />
<br />
===Michelle Chu (UIC)===<br />
''Prescribed virtual torsion in the homology of 3-manifolds''<br />
<br />
Hongbin Sun showed that a closed hyperbolic 3-manifold virtually contains any prescribed torsion subgroup as a direct factor in homology. In this talk we will discuss joint work with Daniel Groves generalizing Sun’s result to irreducible 3-manifolds which are not graph-manifolds.<br />
<br />
<br />
===Osama Khalil (Utah)===<br />
''Generalized Hecke Operators and Mahler’s Problem in Diophantine Approximation''<br />
<br />
Khintchine's Theorem provides a zero-one law describing the approximability of typical points by rational points. In 1984, Mahler asked whether the same holds for Cantor’s middle thirds set. His question fits into a long studied line of research aiming at showing that Diophantine sets are highly random and are thus disjoint, in a suitable sense, from highly structured sets.<br />
<br />
We will discuss the first complete analogue of Khintchine’s theorem for certain self-similar fractal measures, recently obtained in joint work with Manuel Luethi. The key ingredient in the proof is an effective equidistribution theorem for fractal measures on the space of unimodular lattices, generalizing a long history of similar results for smooth measures beginning with Sarnak’s work in the eighties. To prove the latter, we associate to such fractals certain p-adic Markov operators, reminiscent of the classical Hecke operators, and leverage their spectral properties. No background in homogeneous dynamics will be assumed.<br />
<br />
<br />
=== Theodore Weisman (UT Austin)===<br />
<br />
''Relative Anosov representations and convex projective structures''<br />
<br />
Anosov representations are a higher-rank generalization of convex cocompact subgroups of rank-one Lie groups. They are only defined for word-hyperbolic groups, but recently Kapovich-Leeb and Zhu have suggested possible definitions for an Anosov representation of a relatively hyperbolic group - aiming to give a higher-rank generalization of geometrical finiteness.<br />
<br />
In this talk, we will introduce a more general version of relative Anosov representation which also interacts well with the theory of convex projective structures. In particular, the definition includes projectively convex cocompact representations of relatively hyperbolic groups, and allows for deformations of cusped convex projective manifolds (including hyperbolic manifolds) in which the cusp groups change in nontrivial ways.<br />
<br />
===Grace Work (UW Madison)===<br />
There are many interesting dynamical flows that arise in the context of translation surfaces, including the horocycle flow. One application of the horocycle flow is to compute the distribution of the gaps between slopes of saddle connections on a specific translation surface. This method was first developed by Athreya and Chueng in the case of the torus, where the question can be restated in terms of Farey fractions and was solved by R. R. Hall using methods from analytic number theory. An important step in this process is to find a good parametrization of a transversal to horocycle flow. We will show how to do this explicitly in the case of the octagon, how it generalizes to a specific class of translation surfaces, lattice surfaces, (both joint work with Caglar Uyanik), and examine how to parametrize the transversal for a generic surface in a given moduli space.<br />
<br />
===Chenxi Wu (UW Madison)===<br />
The Hubbard tree is a combinatorial object that encodes the dynamic of a post critically finite polynomial map, and its topological entropy is called the core entropy. I will talk about an upcoming paper with Kathryn Lindsey and Giulio Tiozzo where we provide geometric constrains to the Galois conjugates of exponents of core entropy, which gives a necessary condition for a number to be the core entropy for a super attracting parameter.<br />
<br />
===Jack Burkart (UW Madison)===<br />
"TBA"<br />
<br />
===Jayadev Athreya (UW Seattle)===<br />
''Stable Random Fields, Patterson-Sullivan Measures, and Extremal Cocycle Growth''<br />
<br />
We study extreme values of group-indexed stable random fields<br />
for discrete groups G acting geometrically on spaces X in the following cases:<br />
(1) G acts freely, properly discontinuously by isometries on a CAT(-1) space X,<br />
(2) G is a lattice in a higher rank Lie group, acting on a symmetric space X,<br />
(3) G is the mapping class group of a surface acting on its Teichmuller space. The connection between extreme values and the geometric action is mediated by the action of the group G on its limit set equipped with the Patterson-Sullivan measure. Based on motivation from extreme value theory, we introduce an invariant of the action called extremal cocycle growth which measures the distortion of measures on the boundary in comparison to the movement of points in the space X and show that its non-vanishing is equivalent to<br />
finiteness of the Bowen-Margulis measure for the associated unit tangent bundle U(X/G) provided X/G has non-arithmetic length spectrum. This is joint work with Mahan MJ and Parthanil Roy.<br />
<br />
===Funda Gültepe (U Toledo)===<br />
"TBA"<br />
<br />
===Jonah Gaster (UWM)===<br />
''TBA''<br />
<br />
===Chloe Avery (U Chicago)===<br />
"TBA"<br />
<br />
== Archive of past Dynamics seminars ==<br />
<br />
2020-2021 [[Dynamics_Seminar_2020-2021]]</div>Cwu367https://wiki.math.wisc.edu/index.php?title=Dynamics_Seminar_2021-2022&diff=21979Dynamics Seminar 2021-20222021-10-21T16:26:33Z<p>Cwu367: /* Abstracts */</p>
<hr />
<div>The [[Dynamics]] seminar meets in room '''901 of Van Vleck Hall''' on '''Mondays''' from '''2:30pm - 3:20pm'''. To sign up for the mailing list send an email from your wisc.edu address to dynamics+join@g-groups.wisc.edu. For more information, contact Caglar Uyanik or Chenxi Wu.<br />
<br />
[[Image:Hawk.jpg|thumb|300px]]<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
== Fall 2021 ==<br />
<br />
{| cellpadding="8"<br />
!align="left" | date<br />
!align="left" | speaker<br />
!align="left" | title<br />
!align="left" | host(s)<br />
<br />
|-<br />
|Sep. 13<br />
|[https://sites.tufts.edu/natefisher/ Nate Fisher] (UW Madison) <br />
|[[# Nate Fisher (UW Madison) | "Boundaries, random walks, and nilpotent groups"]]<br />
| local<br />
|-<br />
|Sep. 20<br />
|[https://www.caglaruyanik.com/ Caglar Uyanik] (UW Madison)<br />
|[[# Caglar Uyanik (UW Madison) | "Dynamics on currents and applications to free group automorphisms"]]<br />
|local<br />
|-<br />
|Sep. 27<br />
|[https://michu.people.uic.edu/ Michelle Chu] (UIC)<br />
|[[# Michelle Chu (UIC) | "Prescribed virtual torsion in the homology of 3-manifolds"]]<br />
|caglar<br />
|-<br />
|Oct. 4<br />
|[https://www.math.utah.edu/~khalil/ Osama Khalil] (Utah)<br />
|[[# Osama Khalil (Utah) | "Generalized Hecke Operators and Mahler’s Problem in Diophantine Approximation"]]<br />
|caglar<br />
|-<br />
|Oct. 11<br />
|[https://web.ma.utexas.edu/users/weisman/ Theodore Weisman] (UT Austin)<br />
|[[# Theodore Weisman (UT Austin) | "Relative Anosov representations and convex projective structures"]]<br />
|zimmer<br />
|-<br />
|Oct. 18<br />
|Grace Work (UW Madison)<br />
|[[# Grace Work (UW Madison) | "Parametrizing transversals to horocycle flow"]]<br />
|local<br />
|-<br />
|Oct. 25<br />
|Chenxi Wu (UW Madison)<br />
|[[# Chenxi Wu (UW Madison) | "Galois conjugates of quadratic core entropy"]]<br />
|local<br />
|-<br />
|Nov. 1<br />
|Jack Burkart (UW Madison)<br />
|TBA<br />
|local<br />
|-<br />
<br />
|Nov. 8<br />
|[https://faculty.washington.edu/jathreya/ Jayadev Athreya] (UW Seattle)<br />
|[[# Jayadev Athreya (UW Seattle) | "Stable Random Fields, Patterson-Sullivan Measures, and Extremal Cocycle Growth"]]<br />
|caglar and grace<br />
|-<br />
|Nov. 15<br />
|[http://math.utoledo.edu/~fgultepe/ Funda Gültepe] (U Toledo)<br />
|[[# Funda Gültepe (U Toledo) | "TBA"]]<br />
|caglar<br />
|-<br />
|Nov. 22<br />
|[https://sites.google.com/view/jonah-gaster/home Jonah Gaster] (UW Milwaukee)<br />
|[[# Jonah Gaster (UWM) | "TBA"]]<br />
|caglar<br />
|-<br />
|Nov. 29<br />
|[https://sites.google.com/view/chloe-avery/home Chloe Avery] (U Chicago)<br />
|[[# Chloe Avery (U Chicago) | "TBA"]]<br />
|Dymarz<br />
|-<br />
|Dec. 6<br />
|open<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|}<br />
<br />
== Abstracts ==<br />
<br />
===Nate Fisher (UW Madison)===<br />
''Boundaries, random walks, and nilpotent groups''<br />
<br />
In this talk, we will discuss boundaries and random walks in the Heisenberg group. We will discuss a class of sub-Finsler metrics on the Heisenberg group which arise as the asymptotic cones of word metrics on the integer Heisenberg group and describe new results on the boundaries of these polygonal sub-Finsler metrics. After that, we will explore experimental work to examine the asymptotic behavior of random walks in this group. Parts of this work are joint with Sebastiano Nicolussi Golo.<br />
<br />
===Caglar Uyanik (UW Madison)===<br />
''Dynamics on currents and applications to free group automorphisms''<br />
<br />
Currents are measure theoretic generalizations of conjugacy classes on free groups, and play an important role in various low-dimensional geometry questions. I will talk about the dynamics of certain "generic" elements of Out(F) on the space of currents, and explain how it reflects on the algebraic structure of the group. <br />
<br />
<br />
===Michelle Chu (UIC)===<br />
''Prescribed virtual torsion in the homology of 3-manifolds''<br />
<br />
Hongbin Sun showed that a closed hyperbolic 3-manifold virtually contains any prescribed torsion subgroup as a direct factor in homology. In this talk we will discuss joint work with Daniel Groves generalizing Sun’s result to irreducible 3-manifolds which are not graph-manifolds.<br />
<br />
<br />
===Osama Khalil (Utah)===<br />
''Generalized Hecke Operators and Mahler’s Problem in Diophantine Approximation''<br />
<br />
Khintchine's Theorem provides a zero-one law describing the approximability of typical points by rational points. In 1984, Mahler asked whether the same holds for Cantor’s middle thirds set. His question fits into a long studied line of research aiming at showing that Diophantine sets are highly random and are thus disjoint, in a suitable sense, from highly structured sets.<br />
<br />
We will discuss the first complete analogue of Khintchine’s theorem for certain self-similar fractal measures, recently obtained in joint work with Manuel Luethi. The key ingredient in the proof is an effective equidistribution theorem for fractal measures on the space of unimodular lattices, generalizing a long history of similar results for smooth measures beginning with Sarnak’s work in the eighties. To prove the latter, we associate to such fractals certain p-adic Markov operators, reminiscent of the classical Hecke operators, and leverage their spectral properties. No background in homogeneous dynamics will be assumed.<br />
<br />
<br />
=== Theodore Weisman (UT Austin)===<br />
<br />
''Relative Anosov representations and convex projective structures''<br />
<br />
Anosov representations are a higher-rank generalization of convex cocompact subgroups of rank-one Lie groups. They are only defined for word-hyperbolic groups, but recently Kapovich-Leeb and Zhu have suggested possible definitions for an Anosov representation of a relatively hyperbolic group - aiming to give a higher-rank generalization of geometrical finiteness.<br />
<br />
In this talk, we will introduce a more general version of relative Anosov representation which also interacts well with the theory of convex projective structures. In particular, the definition includes projectively convex cocompact representations of relatively hyperbolic groups, and allows for deformations of cusped convex projective manifolds (including hyperbolic manifolds) in which the cusp groups change in nontrivial ways.<br />
<br />
===Grace Work (UW Madison)===<br />
There are many interesting dynamical flows that arise in the context of translation surfaces, including the horocycle flow. One application of the horocycle flow is to compute the distribution of the gaps between slopes of saddle connections on a specific translation surface. This method was first developed by Athreya and Chueng in the case of the torus, where the question can be restated in terms of Farey fractions and was solved by R. R. Hall using methods from analytic number theory. An important step in this process is to find a good parametrization of a transversal to horocycle flow. We will show how to do this explicitly in the case of the octagon, how it generalizes to a specific class of translation surfaces, lattice surfaces, (both joint work with Caglar Uyanik), and examine how to parametrize the transversal for a generic surface in a given moduli space.<br />
<br />
===Chenxi Wu (UW Madison)===<br />
The Hubbard tree is a combinatorial object that encodes the dynamic of a post critically finite polynomial map, and its topological entropy is called the core entropy. I will talk about an upcoming paper with Kathryn Lindsey and Giulio Tiozzo where we provide geometric constrains to the Galois conjugates of exponents of core entropy, which gives a necessary condition for a number to be the core entropy for a super attracting parameter.<br />
<br />
===Jack Burkart (UW Madison)===<br />
"TBA"<br />
<br />
===Jayadev Athreya (UW Seattle)===<br />
''Stable Random Fields, Patterson-Sullivan Measures, and Extremal Cocycle Growth''<br />
<br />
We study extreme values of group-indexed stable random fields<br />
for discrete groups G acting geometrically on spaces X in the following cases:<br />
(1) G acts freely, properly discontinuously by isometries on a CAT(-1) space X,<br />
(2) G is a lattice in a higher rank Lie group, acting on a symmetric space X,<br />
(3) G is the mapping class group of a surface acting on its Teichmuller space. The connection between extreme values and the geometric action is mediated by the action of the group G on its limit set equipped with the Patterson-Sullivan measure. Based on motivation from extreme value theory, we introduce an invariant of the action called extremal cocycle growth which measures the distortion of measures on the boundary in comparison to the movement of points in the space X and show that its non-vanishing is equivalent to<br />
finiteness of the Bowen-Margulis measure for the associated unit tangent bundle U(X/G) provided X/G has non-arithmetic length spectrum. This is joint work with Mahan MJ and Parthanil Roy.<br />
<br />
===Funda Gültepe (U Toledo)===<br />
"TBA"<br />
<br />
===Jonah Gaster (UWM)===<br />
''TBA''<br />
<br />
===Chloe Avery (U Chicago)===<br />
"TBA"<br />
<br />
== Archive of past Dynamics seminars ==<br />
<br />
2020-2021 [[Dynamics_Seminar_2020-2021]]</div>Cwu367https://wiki.math.wisc.edu/index.php?title=Dynamics_Seminar_2021-2022&diff=21978Dynamics Seminar 2021-20222021-10-21T16:18:23Z<p>Cwu367: /* Fall 2021 */</p>
<hr />
<div>The [[Dynamics]] seminar meets in room '''901 of Van Vleck Hall''' on '''Mondays''' from '''2:30pm - 3:20pm'''. To sign up for the mailing list send an email from your wisc.edu address to dynamics+join@g-groups.wisc.edu. For more information, contact Caglar Uyanik or Chenxi Wu.<br />
<br />
[[Image:Hawk.jpg|thumb|300px]]<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
== Fall 2021 ==<br />
<br />
{| cellpadding="8"<br />
!align="left" | date<br />
!align="left" | speaker<br />
!align="left" | title<br />
!align="left" | host(s)<br />
<br />
|-<br />
|Sep. 13<br />
|[https://sites.tufts.edu/natefisher/ Nate Fisher] (UW Madison) <br />
|[[# Nate Fisher (UW Madison) | "Boundaries, random walks, and nilpotent groups"]]<br />
| local<br />
|-<br />
|Sep. 20<br />
|[https://www.caglaruyanik.com/ Caglar Uyanik] (UW Madison)<br />
|[[# Caglar Uyanik (UW Madison) | "Dynamics on currents and applications to free group automorphisms"]]<br />
|local<br />
|-<br />
|Sep. 27<br />
|[https://michu.people.uic.edu/ Michelle Chu] (UIC)<br />
|[[# Michelle Chu (UIC) | "Prescribed virtual torsion in the homology of 3-manifolds"]]<br />
|caglar<br />
|-<br />
|Oct. 4<br />
|[https://www.math.utah.edu/~khalil/ Osama Khalil] (Utah)<br />
|[[# Osama Khalil (Utah) | "Generalized Hecke Operators and Mahler’s Problem in Diophantine Approximation"]]<br />
|caglar<br />
|-<br />
|Oct. 11<br />
|[https://web.ma.utexas.edu/users/weisman/ Theodore Weisman] (UT Austin)<br />
|[[# Theodore Weisman (UT Austin) | "Relative Anosov representations and convex projective structures"]]<br />
|zimmer<br />
|-<br />
|Oct. 18<br />
|Grace Work (UW Madison)<br />
|[[# Grace Work (UW Madison) | "Parametrizing transversals to horocycle flow"]]<br />
|local<br />
|-<br />
|Oct. 25<br />
|Chenxi Wu (UW Madison)<br />
|[[# Chenxi Wu (UW Madison) | "Galois conjugates of quadratic core entropy"]]<br />
|local<br />
|-<br />
|Nov. 1<br />
|Jack Burkart (UW Madison)<br />
|TBA<br />
|local<br />
|-<br />
<br />
|Nov. 8<br />
|[https://faculty.washington.edu/jathreya/ Jayadev Athreya] (UW Seattle)<br />
|[[# Jayadev Athreya (UW Seattle) | "Stable Random Fields, Patterson-Sullivan Measures, and Extremal Cocycle Growth"]]<br />
|caglar and grace<br />
|-<br />
|Nov. 15<br />
|[http://math.utoledo.edu/~fgultepe/ Funda Gültepe] (U Toledo)<br />
|[[# Funda Gültepe (U Toledo) | "TBA"]]<br />
|caglar<br />
|-<br />
|Nov. 22<br />
|[https://sites.google.com/view/jonah-gaster/home Jonah Gaster] (UW Milwaukee)<br />
|[[# Jonah Gaster (UWM) | "TBA"]]<br />
|caglar<br />
|-<br />
|Nov. 29<br />
|[https://sites.google.com/view/chloe-avery/home Chloe Avery] (U Chicago)<br />
|[[# Chloe Avery (U Chicago) | "TBA"]]<br />
|Dymarz<br />
|-<br />
|Dec. 6<br />
|open<br />
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== Abstracts ==<br />
<br />
===Nate Fisher (UW Madison)===<br />
''Boundaries, random walks, and nilpotent groups''<br />
<br />
In this talk, we will discuss boundaries and random walks in the Heisenberg group. We will discuss a class of sub-Finsler metrics on the Heisenberg group which arise as the asymptotic cones of word metrics on the integer Heisenberg group and describe new results on the boundaries of these polygonal sub-Finsler metrics. After that, we will explore experimental work to examine the asymptotic behavior of random walks in this group. Parts of this work are joint with Sebastiano Nicolussi Golo.<br />
<br />
===Caglar Uyanik (UW Madison)===<br />
''Dynamics on currents and applications to free group automorphisms''<br />
<br />
Currents are measure theoretic generalizations of conjugacy classes on free groups, and play an important role in various low-dimensional geometry questions. I will talk about the dynamics of certain "generic" elements of Out(F) on the space of currents, and explain how it reflects on the algebraic structure of the group. <br />
<br />
<br />
===Michelle Chu (UIC)===<br />
''Prescribed virtual torsion in the homology of 3-manifolds''<br />
<br />
Hongbin Sun showed that a closed hyperbolic 3-manifold virtually contains any prescribed torsion subgroup as a direct factor in homology. In this talk we will discuss joint work with Daniel Groves generalizing Sun’s result to irreducible 3-manifolds which are not graph-manifolds.<br />
<br />
<br />
===Osama Khalil (Utah)===<br />
''Generalized Hecke Operators and Mahler’s Problem in Diophantine Approximation''<br />
<br />
Khintchine's Theorem provides a zero-one law describing the approximability of typical points by rational points. In 1984, Mahler asked whether the same holds for Cantor’s middle thirds set. His question fits into a long studied line of research aiming at showing that Diophantine sets are highly random and are thus disjoint, in a suitable sense, from highly structured sets.<br />
<br />
We will discuss the first complete analogue of Khintchine’s theorem for certain self-similar fractal measures, recently obtained in joint work with Manuel Luethi. The key ingredient in the proof is an effective equidistribution theorem for fractal measures on the space of unimodular lattices, generalizing a long history of similar results for smooth measures beginning with Sarnak’s work in the eighties. To prove the latter, we associate to such fractals certain p-adic Markov operators, reminiscent of the classical Hecke operators, and leverage their spectral properties. No background in homogeneous dynamics will be assumed.<br />
<br />
<br />
=== Theodore Weisman (UT Austin)===<br />
<br />
''Relative Anosov representations and convex projective structures''<br />
<br />
Anosov representations are a higher-rank generalization of convex cocompact subgroups of rank-one Lie groups. They are only defined for word-hyperbolic groups, but recently Kapovich-Leeb and Zhu have suggested possible definitions for an Anosov representation of a relatively hyperbolic group - aiming to give a higher-rank generalization of geometrical finiteness.<br />
<br />
In this talk, we will introduce a more general version of relative Anosov representation which also interacts well with the theory of convex projective structures. In particular, the definition includes projectively convex cocompact representations of relatively hyperbolic groups, and allows for deformations of cusped convex projective manifolds (including hyperbolic manifolds) in which the cusp groups change in nontrivial ways.<br />
<br />
===Grace Work (UW Madison)===<br />
There are many interesting dynamical flows that arise in the context of translation surfaces, including the horocycle flow. One application of the horocycle flow is to compute the distribution of the gaps between slopes of saddle connections on a specific translation surface. This method was first developed by Athreya and Chueng in the case of the torus, where the question can be restated in terms of Farey fractions and was solved by R. R. Hall using methods from analytic number theory. An important step in this process is to find a good parametrization of a transversal to horocycle flow. We will show how to do this explicitly in the case of the octagon, how it generalizes to a specific class of translation surfaces, lattice surfaces, (both joint work with Caglar Uyanik), and examine how to parametrize the transversal for a generic surface in a given moduli space.<br />
<br />
===Chenxi Wu (UW Madison)===<br />
"TBA"<br />
<br />
===Jack Burkart (UW Madison)===<br />
"TBA"<br />
<br />
===Jayadev Athreya (UW Seattle)===<br />
''Stable Random Fields, Patterson-Sullivan Measures, and Extremal Cocycle Growth''<br />
<br />
We study extreme values of group-indexed stable random fields<br />
for discrete groups G acting geometrically on spaces X in the following cases:<br />
(1) G acts freely, properly discontinuously by isometries on a CAT(-1) space X,<br />
(2) G is a lattice in a higher rank Lie group, acting on a symmetric space X,<br />
(3) G is the mapping class group of a surface acting on its Teichmuller space. The connection between extreme values and the geometric action is mediated by the action of the group G on its limit set equipped with the Patterson-Sullivan measure. Based on motivation from extreme value theory, we introduce an invariant of the action called extremal cocycle growth which measures the distortion of measures on the boundary in comparison to the movement of points in the space X and show that its non-vanishing is equivalent to<br />
finiteness of the Bowen-Margulis measure for the associated unit tangent bundle U(X/G) provided X/G has non-arithmetic length spectrum. This is joint work with Mahan MJ and Parthanil Roy.<br />
<br />
===Funda Gültepe (U Toledo)===<br />
"TBA"<br />
<br />
===Jonah Gaster (UWM)===<br />
''TBA''<br />
<br />
===Chloe Avery (U Chicago)===<br />
"TBA"<br />
<br />
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== Archive of past Dynamics seminars ==<br />
<br />
2020-2021 [[Dynamics_Seminar_2020-2021]]</div>Cwu367https://wiki.math.wisc.edu/index.php?title=Dynamics_Seminar_2020-2021&diff=21180Dynamics Seminar 2020-20212021-04-27T17:23:59Z<p>Cwu367: </p>
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<div>The [[Dynamics Seminar]] meets virtually on '''Wednesdays''' from '''2:30pm - 3:20pm'''.<br />
<br> <br />
For more information, contact Chenxi Wu.<br />
To sign up for the mailing list send an email from your wisc.edu address to dynamics+join@g-groups.wisc.edu<br />
<br />
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<br />
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== Spring 2021 ==<br />
<br />
{| cellpadding="8"<br />
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!align="left" | speaker<br />
!align="left" | title<br />
!align="left" | host(s)<br />
|-<br />
|February 3<br />
|Daniel Woodhouse (Oxford)<br />
|Quasi-isometric Rigidity of graphs of free groups with cyclic edge groups<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|February 10<br />
|John Mackay (Bristol)<br />
|Poincaré profiles on graphs and groups, and a coarse geometric<br />
dichotomy<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|February 17<br />
|Benjamin Branman (Wisconsin)<br />
|Spaces of Pants Decompositions for Surfaces of Infinite Type<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|February 24<br />
|Uri Bader (Weizmann Institute)<br />
|Totally geodesic submanifolds of hyperbolic manifolds and arithmeticity.<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|March 3<br />
|Omri Sarig (Weizmann Institute)<br />
|(Dis)continuity of Lyapunov exponents for surface diffeomorphisms (joint with J. Buzz and S. Crovisier)<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|March 10<br />
|Chris Leininger (Rice University)<br />
|Billiards, symbolic coding, and cone metrics<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|March 17<br />
|Ethan Farber (Boston College)<br />
|Constructing pseudo-Anosovs from expanding interval maps<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|March 24<br />
|Jon Chaika (Utah)<br />
|A strange limit of horocycle ergodic measures in a stratum of<br />
translation surfaces<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|March 31<br />
|Harrison Bray (George Mason)<br />
|Volume-entropy rigidity for convex real projective manifolds<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|April 7<br />
|Claire Burrin (ETH Zurich)<br />
|A sparse equidistribution problem for expanding horocycles on the modular surface<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|April 21<br />
|Kasra Rafi (Toronto)<br />
|Absolutely continuous stationary measures for the mapping class group<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|April 28<br />
|Matt Bainbridge (Indiana)<br />
|Haupt's theorem for strata of holomorphic one-forms and isoperiodic foliations<br />
|}<br />
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== Fall 2020 ==<br />
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|September 16<br />
|Andrew Zimmer (Wisconsin)<br />
|An introduction to Anosov representations I<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|September 23<br />
|Andrew Zimmer (Wisconsin)<br />
|An introduction to Anosov representations II<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|September 30<br />
|Chenxi Wu (Wisconsin)<br />
|Asymptoic translation lengths on curve complexes and free factor complexes<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|October 7<br />
|Kathryn Lindsey (Boston College)<br />
|Slices of Thurston's Master Teapot<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|October 14<br />
|Daniel Thompson (Ohio State)<br />
|Strong ergodic properties for equilibrium states in non-positive curvature<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|October 21<br />
|Giulio Tiozzo (Toronto)<br />
|Metrics on trees, laminations, and core entropy<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|October 28<br />
|No talk<br />
|No talk<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|November 4<br />
|Clark Butler (Princeton)<br />
|"Unbounded uniformizations of Grkmov hyperbolic spaces"<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|November 11<br />
|Subhadip Dey (Yale)<br />
|Patterson-Sullivan measures for Anosov subgroups<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|November 18<br />
|Nattalie Tamam (UCSD)<br />
|Effective equidistribution of horospherical flows in infinite volume<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|November 25<br />
|Tariq Osman (Queens)<br />
|Limit Theorems for Quadratic Weyl Sums<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|December 2<br />
|Wenyu Pan (Chicago)<br />
|Exponential mixing of geodesic flows for geometrically finite hyperbolic manifolds with cusps<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
== Spring Abstracts ==<br />
<br />
===Daniel Woodhouse===<br />
<br />
"Quasi-isometric Rigidity of graphs of free groups with cyclic edge groups"<br />
<br />
Let F be a finitely rank free group.<br />
Let w_1 and w_2 be suitable random/generic elements in F.<br />
Consider the HNN extension G = <F, t | t w_1 t^{-1} = w_2 >.<br />
It is known from existing results that G will be 1-ended and hyperbolic.<br />
We have shown that G is quasi-isometrically rigid.<br />
That is to say that if a f.g. group H is quasi-isometric to G, then G and H are virtually isomorphic.<br />
The full result is for finite graphs of groups with virtually free vertex groups and and two-ended edge groups, but the statement is more technical -- not all such groups are QI-rigid.<br />
The main argument involves applying a new proof of Leighton's graph covering theorem.<br />
This is joint work with Sam Shepherd.<br />
<br />
===John Mackay===<br />
<br />
"Poincaré profiles on graphs and groups, and a coarse geometric<br />
dichotomy"<br />
<br />
The separation profile of an infinite graph was introduced by<br />
Benjamini-Schramm-Timar. It is a function which measures how<br />
well-connected the graph is by how hard it is to cut finite subgraphs<br />
into small pieces. In earlier joint work with David Hume and Romain<br />
Tessera, we introduced Poincaré profiles, generalising this concept by<br />
using p-Poincaré inequalities to measure the connected-ness of<br />
subgraphs. I will discuss this family of invariants, their applications<br />
to coarse embedding problems, and recent work finding the profiles of<br />
all connected unimodular Lie groups, where a dichotomy is exhibited.<br />
Joint with Hume and Tessera.<br />
<br />
===Benjamin Branman===<br />
<br />
"Spaces of Pants Decompositions for Surfaces of Infinite Type"<br />
<br />
We study the pants graph of surfaces of infinite type. When S is a surface of infinite type, the usual definition of the graph of pants decompositions yields a graph with infinitely many connected-components. In the first part of our talk, we study this disconnected graph. In particular, we show that the extended mapping class group of S is isomorphic to a proper subgroup of of the pants graph, in contrast to the finite-type case. In the second part of the talk, motivated by the Metaconjecture of Ivanov, we seek to endow the pants graph with additional structure. To this end, we define a coarser topology on the pants graph than the topology inherited from the graph structure. We show that our new space is path-connected, and that its automorphism group is isomorphic to the extended mapping class group.<br />
<br />
<br />
===Uri Bader===<br />
"Totally geodesic submanifolds of hyperbolic manifolds and arithmeticity."<br />
<br />
Compact hyperbolic manifolds are very interesting geometric objects.<br />
Maybe surprisingly, they are also interesting from an algebraic point of view:<br />
They are completely determined by their fundamental groups (this is Mostow's Theorem),<br />
which could be seen as a subgroup of the integer valued invertible matrices in some dimension, GL_n(Z).<br />
When the fundamental group is the Z-points of some algebraic subgroup of GL_n we say that the manifold is arithmetic.<br />
A question arises: is there a simple geometric criterion for arithmeticity for hyperbolic manifolds?<br />
Such a criterion, relating arithmeticity to the existence of totally geodesic submanifolds, was conjectured by Reid and by McMullen.<br />
In a recent work with Fisher, Miller and Stover we proved this conjecture.<br />
Our proof is based on the theory of AREA, namely Algebraic Representation of Ergodic Actions, which I have developed with Alex Furman in recent years.<br />
In this talk I will try to survey the subject in a colloquial manner.<br />
<br />
<br />
===Omri Sarig===<br />
<br />
"(Dis)continuity of Lyapunov exponents for surface diffeomorphisms" (joint with J. Buzz and S. Crovisier)"<br />
<br />
Let f be an infinitely differentiable surface diffeomorphism. Suppose we are given a sequence of ergodic invariant measures m_n which converge weak star to an ergodic limit m. What do we need to know on m_n to guarantee that the Lyapunov exponents of m_n converge to the Lyapunov exponents of m?<br />
The main result is that if m has positive entropy, and the entropy of m_n converges to the entropy of m, then the Lyapunov exponents of m_n converge to the Lyapunov exponents of m.<br />
This is joint work with J. Buzzi and S. Crovisier.<br />
<br />
===Chris Leininger===<br />
<br />
"Billiards, symbolic coding, and cone metrics"<br />
<br />
Given a polygon in the Euclidean or hyperbolic plane a billiard trajectory in the polygon is the geodesic path of a particle in the polygon bouncing off the sides so that the angle of reflection is equal to the angle incidence. A billiard trajectory determines a symbolic coding via the sides of the polygon encountered. In this talk I will describe joint work with Erlandsson and Sadanand showing the extent to which the set of all coding sequences, the bounce spectrum, determines the shape of a hyperbolic polygon. We completely characterize those polygons which are billiard rigid (the generic case), meaning that they are determined up to isometry by their bounce spectrum. When rigidity fails for a polygon P, we parameterize the space of polygons having the same bounce spectrum at P. These results for billiards are a consequence of a rigidity/flexibility theorem for negatively curved hyperbolic cone metrics. In the talk I will explain the theorem about hyperbolic billiards, comparing/contrasting it with the Euclidean case (earlier work with Duchin, Erlandsson, and Sadanand). Then I will explain the relationship with hyperbolic cone metrics, state our rigidity/flexibility theorem for such metrics, and as time allows describe some of the ideas involved in the proofs.<br />
<br />
===Ethan Farber===<br />
<br />
"Constructing pseudo-Anosovs from expanding interval maps"<br />
<br />
The celebrated Nielsen-Thurston classification of surface homeomorphisms says that, up to isotopy, there are three types of homeomorphisms of a closed, connected surface: (1) finite order, (2) reducible, and (3) pseudo-Anosov. Of these three types, pseudo-Anosovs are the most intriguing to dynamicists, with connections to symbolic dynamics and flat geometry. In this talk we investigate a construction of generalized pseudo-Anosovs from interval maps, first introduced by de Carvalho. In particular, for a certain class of interval maps we give necessary and sufficient conditions for the construction to produce a true pseudo-Anosov, which may be recast in terms of the kneading data of the interval map. We also describe a bijection between such interval maps and the rationals in the open unit interval which captures the kneading data, and which increases monotonically in the entropy of the interval map.<br />
<br />
===Jon Chaika===<br />
<br />
"A strange limit of horocycle ergodic measures in a stratum of<br />
translation surfaces"<br />
<br />
The main result of this talk is that in the space of unit area<br />
translation surfaces with one cone point there is a weak-star limit of<br />
measures on periodic horocycles that is fully supported in the<br />
7-dimensional space but gives positive measure to a 3-dimensional<br />
submanifold. As a consequence we obtain a non-genericity result for the<br />
horocycle flow in this space. I will define the terminology. This is joint<br />
work with Osama Khalil and John Smillie.<br />
<br />
===Harrison Bray===<br />
<br />
"Volume-entropy rigidity for convex real projective manifolds"<br />
<br />
I will discuss joint work with Constantine, building on joint work with Adeboye and Constantine, on a volume-entropy rigidity result for finite volume strictly convex projective manifolds in dimension at least 3. The result is a Besson-Courtois-Gallot type theorem, using the barycenter method. As an application, we get a uniform lower bound on the Hilbert volume of a finite volume strictly convex projective manifold of dimension at least 3.<br />
<br />
===Claire Burrin===<br />
<br />
"A sparse equidistribution problem for expanding horocycles on the modular surface"<br />
<br />
Abstract: The orbits of the horocycle flow on hyperbolic surfaces (or orbifolds) are classified: each orbit is either dense or a closed horocycle around a cusp. Expanding closed horocycles are themselves asymptotically dense, and in fact become equidistributed on the surface. The precise rate of equidistribution is of interest; on the modular surface, Zagier observed that a particular rate is equivalent to the Riemann hypothesis being true. In this talk, I will discuss the asymptotic behavior of evenly spaced points along an expanding closed horocycle on the modular surface. In this problem, the number of points depends on the expansion rate of the horocycle, and the difficulty is that these points are no more invariant under the horocycle flow. This is based on joint work with Uri Shapira and Shucheng Yu.<br />
<br />
===Kasra Rafi===<br />
<br />
"Absolutely continuous stationary measures for the mapping class group"<br />
<br />
We prove a version of a Theorem of Furstenberg in the setting of Mapping class groups. Thurston measure defines a smooth measure class on space of projectivized measured laminations For every measure \nu in this measure class, we produce a measure \mu with finite first moment on the mapping class group such that \nu is the unique \mu-stationary measure. In particular, this gives an coding-free proof of the already known result that the Lyapunov spectrum of Kontsevich-Zorich cocycle on the principal stratum of quadratic differentials is simple. This is a joint work with Alex Eskin and Maryam Mirzakhani. <br />
<br />
===Matt Bainbridge===<br />
<br />
"Haupt's theorem for strata of holomorphic one-forms and isoperiodic foliations"<br />
<br />
Haupt's Theorem (dating back to 1920) characterizes the cohomology classes of the holomorphic one-forms on a surface S with respect to any complex structure on S. More recently, Haupt's theorem was rediscovered by Kapovich, who gave a dynamical proof via Ratner's Theorem. In this talk, I'll give a refinement of Haupt's theorem characterizing the cohomology classes of holomorphic one-forms which have zeros of specified orders. The proof uses recent work of Calsamiglia, Deroin, and Francaviglia on the dynamics of the isoperiodic foliation of the moduli space of holomorphic one-forms. This is joint work with Chris Johnson, Chris Judge, and InSung Park.<br />
<br />
<br />
== Fall Abstracts ==<br />
<br />
===Andrew Zimmer===<br />
<br />
"An introduction to Anosov representations"<br />
<br />
Anosov representations are a special class of representations of finitely generated groups into Lie groups, which are defined using ideas from dynamics (namely, the theory of Anosov flows). In this talk, I will explain the definition (in a special case), give some examples, and describe some properties. I will focus on the case of representations into the general linear group where no background knowledge about Lie groups is required.<br />
<br />
<br />
===Chenxi Wu===<br />
<br />
"Asymptotic translation lengths on curve complexes and free factor complexes"<br />
<br />
The curve complex of a closed surface is a simplicial complex where the vertices are simple closed curves up to isotopy and faces are curves that are disjoint, and an analogy for the curve complex in the setting of Out(F_n) is the free factor complex. A pseudo-Anosov map induces a map from the curve graph to itself, and a basic question is to study the asymptotic translation length which is known to be a non-zero rational number. I will review some prior results on the study of this asymptotic translation length, as well as some of their analogies in the setting of free factor complexes. The latter part is an ongoing project with Hyrungryul Baik and Dongryul Kim. [https://wuchenxi.github.io/graph.pdf Slides]<br />
<br />
<br />
===Kathryn Lindsey===<br />
<br />
"Slices of Thurston's Master Teapot"<br />
<br />
Thurston's Master Teapot is the closure of the set of all points $(z,\lambda) \in \mathbb{C} \times \mathbb{R}$ such that $\lambda$ is the growth rate of a critically periodic unimodal self-map of an interval and $z$ is a Galois conjugate of $\lambda$. I will present a new characterization of which points are in this set. This characterization gives a way to think of each horizontal slice of the Master Teapot as an analogy of the Mandelbrot set for a "restricted iterated function system." An application of this characterization is that the Master Teapot is not invariant under the map $(z,\lambda) \mapsto (-z,\lambda)$. This presentation is based on joint work with Chenxi Wu.<br />
<br />
<br />
===Daniel Thompson===<br />
<br />
"Strong ergodic properties for equilibrium states in non-positive curvature"<br />
<br />
Equilibrium states for geodesic flows over compact rank 1 manifolds and sufficiently regular potential functions were studied by Burns, Climenhaga, Fisher and myself. We showed that if the higher rank set does not carry full topological pressure then the equilibrium state is unique. In this talk, I will describe some recent results on the dynamical properties of these unique equilibrium states. We show that these equilibrium states have the Kolmogorov property (joint with Ben Call), and that approximations of the equilibrium states by regular closed geodesics asymptotically satisfy a type of Central Limit Theorem (joint with Tianyu Wang).<br />
<br />
===Giulio Tiozzo===<br />
<br />
"Metrics on trees, laminations, and core entropy"<br />
<br />
The notion of core entropy, defined as the entropy of the restriction to the Hubbard tree,<br />
was formulated by W. Thurston to produce a combinatorial invariant which captures the topological complexity of polynomial Julia sets and varies in a rich fractal way over parameter space.<br />
<br />
Core entropy has been so far defined by looking at a Markov partition on the tree, or by a combinatorial construction involving infinite graphs. We will introduce a new interpretation of core entropy based on metrics on trees and, dually, on transverse measures on laminations<br />
defining the Julia set.<br />
<br />
On the one hand, this will define a new notion of transverse measures on quadratic laminations, completing the analogy with laminations on surfaces on the “other side” of Sullivan’s dictionary.<br />
Moreover, this is also related to a question of Milnor on a piecewise-linear analogue of Thurston iteration on Teichmueller space.<br />
<br />
===Clark Butler===<br />
<br />
"Unbounded uniformizations of Grkmov hyperbolic spaces"<br />
<br />
In a fundamental work Bonk, Heinonen, and Koskela established a conformal correspondence between Gromov hyperbolic spaces and bounded uniform spaces (satisfying certain additional hypotheses) that generalized the classical conformal correspondence between the Euclidean unit disk and the hyperbolic plane. We prove a similar conformal correspondence between Gromov hyperbolic spaces and unbounded uniform spaces that extends the correspondence between the Euclidean upper half plane and the hyperbolic plane. Our primary application of this uniformization procedure is to extend a number of recent results of Bjorn-Bjorn-Shanmugalingam for Besov spaces on compact metric spaces to Besov spaces on proper metric spaces. These results are derived through a Patterson-Sullivan-esque construction by realizing certain measures on these metric spaces as the boundary values of measures on uniformized Gromov hyperbolic spaces having these metric spaces as their boundaries.<br />
<br />
===Subhadip Dey===<br />
<br />
"Patterson-Sullivan measures for Anosov subgroups"<br />
<br />
Patterson-Sullivan measures were introduced by Patterson (1976) and Sullivan (1979) to study the Kleinian groups and their limit sets. In this talk, we discuss an extension of this classical construction for $P$-Anosov subgroups $\Gamma$ of $G$, where $G$ is a real semisimple Lie group and $P<G$ is a parabolic subgroup. In parallel with the theory for Kleinian groups, we will discuss how one can understand the Hausdorff dimension of the limit set of $\Gamma$ in terms of a certain critical exponent. This is a joint work with Michael Kapovich.<br />
<br />
===Nattalie Tamam===<br />
<br />
"Effective equidistribution of horospherical flows in infinite volume"<br />
<br />
Horospherical flows in homogeneous spaces have been studied intensively over the last several decades and have many surprising applications in various fields. Many basic results are under the assumption that the volume of the space is finite, which is crucial as many basic ergodic theorems fail in the setting of an infinite measure space.In the talk we will discuss the infinite volume setting, and specifically, when can we expect horospherical orbits to equidistribute. Our goal will be to provide an effective equidistribution result, with polynomial rate, for horospherical orbits in the frame bundle of certain infinite volume hyperbolic manifolds. This is a joint work with Jacqueline Warren.<br />
<br />
===Tariq Osman===<br />
<br />
"Limit Theorems for Quadratic Weyl Sums"<br />
<br />
Consider exponential sums of the form $S_N(x, \alpha) := \sum_{n = 1}^{N}e(1/2 n^2 x + n\alpha)$, known as quadratic Weyl sums. We will use homogeneous dynamics to establish a limiting distribution for $\frac{1}{\sqrt N} |S_N(x, \alpha)|$, when $\alpha$ is a fixed rational, and $x$ is chosen uniformly from the unit interval. Time permitting, we will study the tails of the limiting distribution to show that this is not the central limit theorem in disguise. (This is joint work with Francesco Cellarosi)<br />
<br />
===Wenyu Pan===<br />
<br />
"Exponential mixing of geodesic flows for geometrically finite hyperbolic manifolds with cusps"<br />
<br />
Let $\mathbb{H}^n$ be the hyperbolic $n$-space and $\Gamma$ be a geometrically finite discrete subgroup in $\operatorname{Isom}_{+}(\mathbb{H}^n)$ with parabolic elements. In the joint work with Jialun LI, we establish exponential mixing of the geodesic flow over the unit tangent bundle $T^1(\Gamma\backslash \mathbb{H}^n)$ with respect to the Bowen-Margulis-Sullivan measure. Our approach is to construct coding for the geodesic flow and then prove a Dolgopyat-type spectral estimate for the corresponding transfer operator. In the talk, I am planning to explain the construction of the coding. I will also discuss the application of obtaining a resonance-free region for the resolvent on $\Gamma\backslash \mathbb{H}^n$.</div>Cwu367https://wiki.math.wisc.edu/index.php?title=Dynamics_Seminar_2020-2021&diff=21160Dynamics Seminar 2020-20212021-04-20T18:09:53Z<p>Cwu367: </p>
<hr />
<div>The [[Dynamics Seminar]] meets virtually on '''Wednesdays''' from '''2:30pm - 3:20pm'''.<br />
<br> <br />
For more information, contact Chenxi Wu.<br />
To sign up for the mailing list send an email from your wisc.edu address to dynamics+join@g-groups.wisc.edu<br />
<br />
Meetings are on Zoom. To get Zoom info email Chenxi Wu. <br />
<br />
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== Spring 2021 ==<br />
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{| cellpadding="8"<br />
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!align="left" | speaker<br />
!align="left" | title<br />
!align="left" | host(s)<br />
|-<br />
|February 3<br />
|Daniel Woodhouse (Oxford)<br />
|Quasi-isometric Rigidity of graphs of free groups with cyclic edge groups<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|February 10<br />
|John Mackay (Bristol)<br />
|Poincaré profiles on graphs and groups, and a coarse geometric<br />
dichotomy<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|February 17<br />
|Benjamin Branman (Wisconsin)<br />
|Spaces of Pants Decompositions for Surfaces of Infinite Type<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|February 24<br />
|Uri Bader (Weizmann Institute)<br />
|Totally geodesic submanifolds of hyperbolic manifolds and arithmeticity.<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|March 3<br />
|Omri Sarig (Weizmann Institute)<br />
|(Dis)continuity of Lyapunov exponents for surface diffeomorphisms (joint with J. Buzz and S. Crovisier)<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|March 10<br />
|Chris Leininger (Rice University)<br />
|Billiards, symbolic coding, and cone metrics<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|March 17<br />
|Ethan Farber (Boston College)<br />
|Constructing pseudo-Anosovs from expanding interval maps<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|March 24<br />
|Jon Chaika (Utah)<br />
|A strange limit of horocycle ergodic measures in a stratum of<br />
translation surfaces<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|March 31<br />
|Harrison Bray (George Mason)<br />
|Volume-entropy rigidity for convex real projective manifolds<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|April 7<br />
|Claire Burrin (ETH Zurich)<br />
|A sparse equidistribution problem for expanding horocycles on the modular surface<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|April 21<br />
|Kasra Rafi (Toronto)<br />
|Absolutely continuous stationary measures for the mapping class group<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|April 28<br />
|Matt Bainbridge (Indiana)<br />
|TBA<br />
|}<br />
<br />
== Fall 2020 ==<br />
<br />
{| cellpadding="8"<br />
!align="left" | date<br />
!align="left" | speaker<br />
!align="left" | title<br />
!align="left" | host(s)<br />
|-<br />
|September 16<br />
|Andrew Zimmer (Wisconsin)<br />
|An introduction to Anosov representations I<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|September 23<br />
|Andrew Zimmer (Wisconsin)<br />
|An introduction to Anosov representations II<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|September 30<br />
|Chenxi Wu (Wisconsin)<br />
|Asymptoic translation lengths on curve complexes and free factor complexes<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|October 7<br />
|Kathryn Lindsey (Boston College)<br />
|Slices of Thurston's Master Teapot<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|October 14<br />
|Daniel Thompson (Ohio State)<br />
|Strong ergodic properties for equilibrium states in non-positive curvature<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|October 21<br />
|Giulio Tiozzo (Toronto)<br />
|Metrics on trees, laminations, and core entropy<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|October 28<br />
|No talk<br />
|No talk<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|November 4<br />
|Clark Butler (Princeton)<br />
|"Unbounded uniformizations of Grkmov hyperbolic spaces"<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|November 11<br />
|Subhadip Dey (Yale)<br />
|Patterson-Sullivan measures for Anosov subgroups<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|November 18<br />
|Nattalie Tamam (UCSD)<br />
|Effective equidistribution of horospherical flows in infinite volume<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|November 25<br />
|Tariq Osman (Queens)<br />
|Limit Theorems for Quadratic Weyl Sums<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|December 2<br />
|Wenyu Pan (Chicago)<br />
|Exponential mixing of geodesic flows for geometrically finite hyperbolic manifolds with cusps<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
== Spring Abstracts ==<br />
<br />
===Daniel Woodhouse===<br />
<br />
"Quasi-isometric Rigidity of graphs of free groups with cyclic edge groups"<br />
<br />
Let F be a finitely rank free group.<br />
Let w_1 and w_2 be suitable random/generic elements in F.<br />
Consider the HNN extension G = <F, t | t w_1 t^{-1} = w_2 >.<br />
It is known from existing results that G will be 1-ended and hyperbolic.<br />
We have shown that G is quasi-isometrically rigid.<br />
That is to say that if a f.g. group H is quasi-isometric to G, then G and H are virtually isomorphic.<br />
The full result is for finite graphs of groups with virtually free vertex groups and and two-ended edge groups, but the statement is more technical -- not all such groups are QI-rigid.<br />
The main argument involves applying a new proof of Leighton's graph covering theorem.<br />
This is joint work with Sam Shepherd.<br />
<br />
===John Mackay===<br />
<br />
"Poincaré profiles on graphs and groups, and a coarse geometric<br />
dichotomy"<br />
<br />
The separation profile of an infinite graph was introduced by<br />
Benjamini-Schramm-Timar. It is a function which measures how<br />
well-connected the graph is by how hard it is to cut finite subgraphs<br />
into small pieces. In earlier joint work with David Hume and Romain<br />
Tessera, we introduced Poincaré profiles, generalising this concept by<br />
using p-Poincaré inequalities to measure the connected-ness of<br />
subgraphs. I will discuss this family of invariants, their applications<br />
to coarse embedding problems, and recent work finding the profiles of<br />
all connected unimodular Lie groups, where a dichotomy is exhibited.<br />
Joint with Hume and Tessera.<br />
<br />
===Benjamin Branman===<br />
<br />
"Spaces of Pants Decompositions for Surfaces of Infinite Type"<br />
<br />
We study the pants graph of surfaces of infinite type. When S is a surface of infinite type, the usual definition of the graph of pants decompositions yields a graph with infinitely many connected-components. In the first part of our talk, we study this disconnected graph. In particular, we show that the extended mapping class group of S is isomorphic to a proper subgroup of of the pants graph, in contrast to the finite-type case. In the second part of the talk, motivated by the Metaconjecture of Ivanov, we seek to endow the pants graph with additional structure. To this end, we define a coarser topology on the pants graph than the topology inherited from the graph structure. We show that our new space is path-connected, and that its automorphism group is isomorphic to the extended mapping class group.<br />
<br />
<br />
===Uri Bader===<br />
"Totally geodesic submanifolds of hyperbolic manifolds and arithmeticity."<br />
<br />
Compact hyperbolic manifolds are very interesting geometric objects.<br />
Maybe surprisingly, they are also interesting from an algebraic point of view:<br />
They are completely determined by their fundamental groups (this is Mostow's Theorem),<br />
which could be seen as a subgroup of the integer valued invertible matrices in some dimension, GL_n(Z).<br />
When the fundamental group is the Z-points of some algebraic subgroup of GL_n we say that the manifold is arithmetic.<br />
A question arises: is there a simple geometric criterion for arithmeticity for hyperbolic manifolds?<br />
Such a criterion, relating arithmeticity to the existence of totally geodesic submanifolds, was conjectured by Reid and by McMullen.<br />
In a recent work with Fisher, Miller and Stover we proved this conjecture.<br />
Our proof is based on the theory of AREA, namely Algebraic Representation of Ergodic Actions, which I have developed with Alex Furman in recent years.<br />
In this talk I will try to survey the subject in a colloquial manner.<br />
<br />
<br />
===Omri Sarig===<br />
<br />
"(Dis)continuity of Lyapunov exponents for surface diffeomorphisms" (joint with J. Buzz and S. Crovisier)"<br />
<br />
Let f be an infinitely differentiable surface diffeomorphism. Suppose we are given a sequence of ergodic invariant measures m_n which converge weak star to an ergodic limit m. What do we need to know on m_n to guarantee that the Lyapunov exponents of m_n converge to the Lyapunov exponents of m?<br />
The main result is that if m has positive entropy, and the entropy of m_n converges to the entropy of m, then the Lyapunov exponents of m_n converge to the Lyapunov exponents of m.<br />
This is joint work with J. Buzzi and S. Crovisier.<br />
<br />
===Chris Leininger===<br />
<br />
"Billiards, symbolic coding, and cone metrics"<br />
<br />
Given a polygon in the Euclidean or hyperbolic plane a billiard trajectory in the polygon is the geodesic path of a particle in the polygon bouncing off the sides so that the angle of reflection is equal to the angle incidence. A billiard trajectory determines a symbolic coding via the sides of the polygon encountered. In this talk I will describe joint work with Erlandsson and Sadanand showing the extent to which the set of all coding sequences, the bounce spectrum, determines the shape of a hyperbolic polygon. We completely characterize those polygons which are billiard rigid (the generic case), meaning that they are determined up to isometry by their bounce spectrum. When rigidity fails for a polygon P, we parameterize the space of polygons having the same bounce spectrum at P. These results for billiards are a consequence of a rigidity/flexibility theorem for negatively curved hyperbolic cone metrics. In the talk I will explain the theorem about hyperbolic billiards, comparing/contrasting it with the Euclidean case (earlier work with Duchin, Erlandsson, and Sadanand). Then I will explain the relationship with hyperbolic cone metrics, state our rigidity/flexibility theorem for such metrics, and as time allows describe some of the ideas involved in the proofs.<br />
<br />
===Ethan Farber===<br />
<br />
"Constructing pseudo-Anosovs from expanding interval maps"<br />
<br />
The celebrated Nielsen-Thurston classification of surface homeomorphisms says that, up to isotopy, there are three types of homeomorphisms of a closed, connected surface: (1) finite order, (2) reducible, and (3) pseudo-Anosov. Of these three types, pseudo-Anosovs are the most intriguing to dynamicists, with connections to symbolic dynamics and flat geometry. In this talk we investigate a construction of generalized pseudo-Anosovs from interval maps, first introduced by de Carvalho. In particular, for a certain class of interval maps we give necessary and sufficient conditions for the construction to produce a true pseudo-Anosov, which may be recast in terms of the kneading data of the interval map. We also describe a bijection between such interval maps and the rationals in the open unit interval which captures the kneading data, and which increases monotonically in the entropy of the interval map.<br />
<br />
===Jon Chaika===<br />
<br />
"A strange limit of horocycle ergodic measures in a stratum of<br />
translation surfaces"<br />
<br />
The main result of this talk is that in the space of unit area<br />
translation surfaces with one cone point there is a weak-star limit of<br />
measures on periodic horocycles that is fully supported in the<br />
7-dimensional space but gives positive measure to a 3-dimensional<br />
submanifold. As a consequence we obtain a non-genericity result for the<br />
horocycle flow in this space. I will define the terminology. This is joint<br />
work with Osama Khalil and John Smillie.<br />
<br />
===Harrison Bray===<br />
<br />
"Volume-entropy rigidity for convex real projective manifolds"<br />
<br />
I will discuss joint work with Constantine, building on joint work with Adeboye and Constantine, on a volume-entropy rigidity result for finite volume strictly convex projective manifolds in dimension at least 3. The result is a Besson-Courtois-Gallot type theorem, using the barycenter method. As an application, we get a uniform lower bound on the Hilbert volume of a finite volume strictly convex projective manifold of dimension at least 3.<br />
<br />
===Claire Burrin===<br />
<br />
"A sparse equidistribution problem for expanding horocycles on the modular surface"<br />
<br />
Abstract: The orbits of the horocycle flow on hyperbolic surfaces (or orbifolds) are classified: each orbit is either dense or a closed horocycle around a cusp. Expanding closed horocycles are themselves asymptotically dense, and in fact become equidistributed on the surface. The precise rate of equidistribution is of interest; on the modular surface, Zagier observed that a particular rate is equivalent to the Riemann hypothesis being true. In this talk, I will discuss the asymptotic behavior of evenly spaced points along an expanding closed horocycle on the modular surface. In this problem, the number of points depends on the expansion rate of the horocycle, and the difficulty is that these points are no more invariant under the horocycle flow. This is based on joint work with Uri Shapira and Shucheng Yu.<br />
<br />
===Kasra Rafi===<br />
<br />
"Absolutely continuous stationary measures for the mapping class group"<br />
<br />
We prove a version of a Theorem of Furstenberg in the setting of Mapping class groups. Thurston measure defines a smooth measure class on space of projectivized measured laminations For every measure \nu in this measure class, we produce a measure \mu with finite first moment on the mapping class group such that \nu is the unique \mu-stationary measure. In particular, this gives an coding-free proof of the already known result that the Lyapunov spectrum of Kontsevich-Zorich cocycle on the principal stratum of quadratic differentials is simple. This is a joint work with Alex Eskin and Maryam Mirzakhani. <br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
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== Fall Abstracts ==<br />
<br />
===Andrew Zimmer===<br />
<br />
"An introduction to Anosov representations"<br />
<br />
Anosov representations are a special class of representations of finitely generated groups into Lie groups, which are defined using ideas from dynamics (namely, the theory of Anosov flows). In this talk, I will explain the definition (in a special case), give some examples, and describe some properties. I will focus on the case of representations into the general linear group where no background knowledge about Lie groups is required.<br />
<br />
<br />
===Chenxi Wu===<br />
<br />
"Asymptotic translation lengths on curve complexes and free factor complexes"<br />
<br />
The curve complex of a closed surface is a simplicial complex where the vertices are simple closed curves up to isotopy and faces are curves that are disjoint, and an analogy for the curve complex in the setting of Out(F_n) is the free factor complex. A pseudo-Anosov map induces a map from the curve graph to itself, and a basic question is to study the asymptotic translation length which is known to be a non-zero rational number. I will review some prior results on the study of this asymptotic translation length, as well as some of their analogies in the setting of free factor complexes. The latter part is an ongoing project with Hyrungryul Baik and Dongryul Kim. [https://wuchenxi.github.io/graph.pdf Slides]<br />
<br />
<br />
===Kathryn Lindsey===<br />
<br />
"Slices of Thurston's Master Teapot"<br />
<br />
Thurston's Master Teapot is the closure of the set of all points $(z,\lambda) \in \mathbb{C} \times \mathbb{R}$ such that $\lambda$ is the growth rate of a critically periodic unimodal self-map of an interval and $z$ is a Galois conjugate of $\lambda$. I will present a new characterization of which points are in this set. This characterization gives a way to think of each horizontal slice of the Master Teapot as an analogy of the Mandelbrot set for a "restricted iterated function system." An application of this characterization is that the Master Teapot is not invariant under the map $(z,\lambda) \mapsto (-z,\lambda)$. This presentation is based on joint work with Chenxi Wu.<br />
<br />
<br />
===Daniel Thompson===<br />
<br />
"Strong ergodic properties for equilibrium states in non-positive curvature"<br />
<br />
Equilibrium states for geodesic flows over compact rank 1 manifolds and sufficiently regular potential functions were studied by Burns, Climenhaga, Fisher and myself. We showed that if the higher rank set does not carry full topological pressure then the equilibrium state is unique. In this talk, I will describe some recent results on the dynamical properties of these unique equilibrium states. We show that these equilibrium states have the Kolmogorov property (joint with Ben Call), and that approximations of the equilibrium states by regular closed geodesics asymptotically satisfy a type of Central Limit Theorem (joint with Tianyu Wang).<br />
<br />
===Giulio Tiozzo===<br />
<br />
"Metrics on trees, laminations, and core entropy"<br />
<br />
The notion of core entropy, defined as the entropy of the restriction to the Hubbard tree,<br />
was formulated by W. Thurston to produce a combinatorial invariant which captures the topological complexity of polynomial Julia sets and varies in a rich fractal way over parameter space.<br />
<br />
Core entropy has been so far defined by looking at a Markov partition on the tree, or by a combinatorial construction involving infinite graphs. We will introduce a new interpretation of core entropy based on metrics on trees and, dually, on transverse measures on laminations<br />
defining the Julia set.<br />
<br />
On the one hand, this will define a new notion of transverse measures on quadratic laminations, completing the analogy with laminations on surfaces on the “other side” of Sullivan’s dictionary.<br />
Moreover, this is also related to a question of Milnor on a piecewise-linear analogue of Thurston iteration on Teichmueller space.<br />
<br />
===Clark Butler===<br />
<br />
"Unbounded uniformizations of Grkmov hyperbolic spaces"<br />
<br />
In a fundamental work Bonk, Heinonen, and Koskela established a conformal correspondence between Gromov hyperbolic spaces and bounded uniform spaces (satisfying certain additional hypotheses) that generalized the classical conformal correspondence between the Euclidean unit disk and the hyperbolic plane. We prove a similar conformal correspondence between Gromov hyperbolic spaces and unbounded uniform spaces that extends the correspondence between the Euclidean upper half plane and the hyperbolic plane. Our primary application of this uniformization procedure is to extend a number of recent results of Bjorn-Bjorn-Shanmugalingam for Besov spaces on compact metric spaces to Besov spaces on proper metric spaces. These results are derived through a Patterson-Sullivan-esque construction by realizing certain measures on these metric spaces as the boundary values of measures on uniformized Gromov hyperbolic spaces having these metric spaces as their boundaries.<br />
<br />
===Subhadip Dey===<br />
<br />
"Patterson-Sullivan measures for Anosov subgroups"<br />
<br />
Patterson-Sullivan measures were introduced by Patterson (1976) and Sullivan (1979) to study the Kleinian groups and their limit sets. In this talk, we discuss an extension of this classical construction for $P$-Anosov subgroups $\Gamma$ of $G$, where $G$ is a real semisimple Lie group and $P<G$ is a parabolic subgroup. In parallel with the theory for Kleinian groups, we will discuss how one can understand the Hausdorff dimension of the limit set of $\Gamma$ in terms of a certain critical exponent. This is a joint work with Michael Kapovich.<br />
<br />
===Nattalie Tamam===<br />
<br />
"Effective equidistribution of horospherical flows in infinite volume"<br />
<br />
Horospherical flows in homogeneous spaces have been studied intensively over the last several decades and have many surprising applications in various fields. Many basic results are under the assumption that the volume of the space is finite, which is crucial as many basic ergodic theorems fail in the setting of an infinite measure space.In the talk we will discuss the infinite volume setting, and specifically, when can we expect horospherical orbits to equidistribute. Our goal will be to provide an effective equidistribution result, with polynomial rate, for horospherical orbits in the frame bundle of certain infinite volume hyperbolic manifolds. This is a joint work with Jacqueline Warren.<br />
<br />
===Tariq Osman===<br />
<br />
"Limit Theorems for Quadratic Weyl Sums"<br />
<br />
Consider exponential sums of the form $S_N(x, \alpha) := \sum_{n = 1}^{N}e(1/2 n^2 x + n\alpha)$, known as quadratic Weyl sums. We will use homogeneous dynamics to establish a limiting distribution for $\frac{1}{\sqrt N} |S_N(x, \alpha)|$, when $\alpha$ is a fixed rational, and $x$ is chosen uniformly from the unit interval. Time permitting, we will study the tails of the limiting distribution to show that this is not the central limit theorem in disguise. (This is joint work with Francesco Cellarosi)<br />
<br />
===Wenyu Pan===<br />
<br />
"Exponential mixing of geodesic flows for geometrically finite hyperbolic manifolds with cusps"<br />
<br />
Let $\mathbb{H}^n$ be the hyperbolic $n$-space and $\Gamma$ be a geometrically finite discrete subgroup in $\operatorname{Isom}_{+}(\mathbb{H}^n)$ with parabolic elements. In the joint work with Jialun LI, we establish exponential mixing of the geodesic flow over the unit tangent bundle $T^1(\Gamma\backslash \mathbb{H}^n)$ with respect to the Bowen-Margulis-Sullivan measure. Our approach is to construct coding for the geodesic flow and then prove a Dolgopyat-type spectral estimate for the corresponding transfer operator. In the talk, I am planning to explain the construction of the coding. I will also discuss the application of obtaining a resonance-free region for the resolvent on $\Gamma\backslash \mathbb{H}^n$.</div>Cwu367https://wiki.math.wisc.edu/index.php?title=Dynamics_Seminar_2020-2021&diff=21117Dynamics Seminar 2020-20212021-04-06T17:53:25Z<p>Cwu367: </p>
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== Spring 2021 ==<br />
<br />
{| cellpadding="8"<br />
!align="left" | date<br />
!align="left" | speaker<br />
!align="left" | title<br />
!align="left" | host(s)<br />
|-<br />
|February 3<br />
|Daniel Woodhouse (Oxford)<br />
|Quasi-isometric Rigidity of graphs of free groups with cyclic edge groups<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|February 10<br />
|John Mackay (Bristol)<br />
|Poincaré profiles on graphs and groups, and a coarse geometric<br />
dichotomy<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|February 17<br />
|Benjamin Branman (Wisconsin)<br />
|Spaces of Pants Decompositions for Surfaces of Infinite Type<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|February 24<br />
|Uri Bader (Weizmann Institute)<br />
|Totally geodesic submanifolds of hyperbolic manifolds and arithmeticity.<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|March 3<br />
|Omri Sarig (Weizmann Institute)<br />
|(Dis)continuity of Lyapunov exponents for surface diffeomorphisms (joint with J. Buzz and S. Crovisier)<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|March 10<br />
|Chris Leininger (Rice University)<br />
|Billiards, symbolic coding, and cone metrics<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|March 17<br />
|Ethan Farber (Boston College)<br />
|Constructing pseudo-Anosovs from expanding interval maps<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|March 24<br />
|Jon Chaika (Utah)<br />
|A strange limit of horocycle ergodic measures in a stratum of<br />
translation surfaces<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|March 31<br />
|Harrison Bray (George Mason)<br />
|Volume-entropy rigidity for convex real projective manifolds<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|April 7<br />
|Claire Burrin (ETH Zurich)<br />
|A sparse equidistribution problem for expanding horocycles on the modular surface<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|April 21<br />
|Kasra Rafi (Toronto)<br />
|TBA<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|April 28<br />
|Matt Bainbridge (Indiana)<br />
|TBA<br />
|}<br />
<br />
== Fall 2020 ==<br />
<br />
{| cellpadding="8"<br />
!align="left" | date<br />
!align="left" | speaker<br />
!align="left" | title<br />
!align="left" | host(s)<br />
|-<br />
|September 16<br />
|Andrew Zimmer (Wisconsin)<br />
|An introduction to Anosov representations I<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|September 23<br />
|Andrew Zimmer (Wisconsin)<br />
|An introduction to Anosov representations II<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|September 30<br />
|Chenxi Wu (Wisconsin)<br />
|Asymptoic translation lengths on curve complexes and free factor complexes<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|October 7<br />
|Kathryn Lindsey (Boston College)<br />
|Slices of Thurston's Master Teapot<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|October 14<br />
|Daniel Thompson (Ohio State)<br />
|Strong ergodic properties for equilibrium states in non-positive curvature<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|October 21<br />
|Giulio Tiozzo (Toronto)<br />
|Metrics on trees, laminations, and core entropy<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|October 28<br />
|No talk<br />
|No talk<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|November 4<br />
|Clark Butler (Princeton)<br />
|"Unbounded uniformizations of Grkmov hyperbolic spaces"<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|November 11<br />
|Subhadip Dey (Yale)<br />
|Patterson-Sullivan measures for Anosov subgroups<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|November 18<br />
|Nattalie Tamam (UCSD)<br />
|Effective equidistribution of horospherical flows in infinite volume<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|November 25<br />
|Tariq Osman (Queens)<br />
|Limit Theorems for Quadratic Weyl Sums<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|December 2<br />
|Wenyu Pan (Chicago)<br />
|Exponential mixing of geodesic flows for geometrically finite hyperbolic manifolds with cusps<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
== Spring Abstracts ==<br />
<br />
===Daniel Woodhouse===<br />
<br />
"Quasi-isometric Rigidity of graphs of free groups with cyclic edge groups"<br />
<br />
Let F be a finitely rank free group.<br />
Let w_1 and w_2 be suitable random/generic elements in F.<br />
Consider the HNN extension G = <F, t | t w_1 t^{-1} = w_2 >.<br />
It is known from existing results that G will be 1-ended and hyperbolic.<br />
We have shown that G is quasi-isometrically rigid.<br />
That is to say that if a f.g. group H is quasi-isometric to G, then G and H are virtually isomorphic.<br />
The full result is for finite graphs of groups with virtually free vertex groups and and two-ended edge groups, but the statement is more technical -- not all such groups are QI-rigid.<br />
The main argument involves applying a new proof of Leighton's graph covering theorem.<br />
This is joint work with Sam Shepherd.<br />
<br />
===John Mackay===<br />
<br />
"Poincaré profiles on graphs and groups, and a coarse geometric<br />
dichotomy"<br />
<br />
The separation profile of an infinite graph was introduced by<br />
Benjamini-Schramm-Timar. It is a function which measures how<br />
well-connected the graph is by how hard it is to cut finite subgraphs<br />
into small pieces. In earlier joint work with David Hume and Romain<br />
Tessera, we introduced Poincaré profiles, generalising this concept by<br />
using p-Poincaré inequalities to measure the connected-ness of<br />
subgraphs. I will discuss this family of invariants, their applications<br />
to coarse embedding problems, and recent work finding the profiles of<br />
all connected unimodular Lie groups, where a dichotomy is exhibited.<br />
Joint with Hume and Tessera.<br />
<br />
===Benjamin Branman===<br />
<br />
"Spaces of Pants Decompositions for Surfaces of Infinite Type"<br />
<br />
We study the pants graph of surfaces of infinite type. When S is a surface of infinite type, the usual definition of the graph of pants decompositions yields a graph with infinitely many connected-components. In the first part of our talk, we study this disconnected graph. In particular, we show that the extended mapping class group of S is isomorphic to a proper subgroup of of the pants graph, in contrast to the finite-type case. In the second part of the talk, motivated by the Metaconjecture of Ivanov, we seek to endow the pants graph with additional structure. To this end, we define a coarser topology on the pants graph than the topology inherited from the graph structure. We show that our new space is path-connected, and that its automorphism group is isomorphic to the extended mapping class group.<br />
<br />
<br />
===Uri Bader===<br />
"Totally geodesic submanifolds of hyperbolic manifolds and arithmeticity."<br />
<br />
Compact hyperbolic manifolds are very interesting geometric objects.<br />
Maybe surprisingly, they are also interesting from an algebraic point of view:<br />
They are completely determined by their fundamental groups (this is Mostow's Theorem),<br />
which could be seen as a subgroup of the integer valued invertible matrices in some dimension, GL_n(Z).<br />
When the fundamental group is the Z-points of some algebraic subgroup of GL_n we say that the manifold is arithmetic.<br />
A question arises: is there a simple geometric criterion for arithmeticity for hyperbolic manifolds?<br />
Such a criterion, relating arithmeticity to the existence of totally geodesic submanifolds, was conjectured by Reid and by McMullen.<br />
In a recent work with Fisher, Miller and Stover we proved this conjecture.<br />
Our proof is based on the theory of AREA, namely Algebraic Representation of Ergodic Actions, which I have developed with Alex Furman in recent years.<br />
In this talk I will try to survey the subject in a colloquial manner.<br />
<br />
<br />
===Omri Sarig===<br />
<br />
"(Dis)continuity of Lyapunov exponents for surface diffeomorphisms" (joint with J. Buzz and S. Crovisier)"<br />
<br />
Let f be an infinitely differentiable surface diffeomorphism. Suppose we are given a sequence of ergodic invariant measures m_n which converge weak star to an ergodic limit m. What do we need to know on m_n to guarantee that the Lyapunov exponents of m_n converge to the Lyapunov exponents of m?<br />
The main result is that if m has positive entropy, and the entropy of m_n converges to the entropy of m, then the Lyapunov exponents of m_n converge to the Lyapunov exponents of m.<br />
This is joint work with J. Buzzi and S. Crovisier.<br />
<br />
===Chris Leininger===<br />
<br />
"Billiards, symbolic coding, and cone metrics"<br />
<br />
Given a polygon in the Euclidean or hyperbolic plane a billiard trajectory in the polygon is the geodesic path of a particle in the polygon bouncing off the sides so that the angle of reflection is equal to the angle incidence. A billiard trajectory determines a symbolic coding via the sides of the polygon encountered. In this talk I will describe joint work with Erlandsson and Sadanand showing the extent to which the set of all coding sequences, the bounce spectrum, determines the shape of a hyperbolic polygon. We completely characterize those polygons which are billiard rigid (the generic case), meaning that they are determined up to isometry by their bounce spectrum. When rigidity fails for a polygon P, we parameterize the space of polygons having the same bounce spectrum at P. These results for billiards are a consequence of a rigidity/flexibility theorem for negatively curved hyperbolic cone metrics. In the talk I will explain the theorem about hyperbolic billiards, comparing/contrasting it with the Euclidean case (earlier work with Duchin, Erlandsson, and Sadanand). Then I will explain the relationship with hyperbolic cone metrics, state our rigidity/flexibility theorem for such metrics, and as time allows describe some of the ideas involved in the proofs.<br />
<br />
===Ethan Farber===<br />
<br />
"Constructing pseudo-Anosovs from expanding interval maps"<br />
<br />
The celebrated Nielsen-Thurston classification of surface homeomorphisms says that, up to isotopy, there are three types of homeomorphisms of a closed, connected surface: (1) finite order, (2) reducible, and (3) pseudo-Anosov. Of these three types, pseudo-Anosovs are the most intriguing to dynamicists, with connections to symbolic dynamics and flat geometry. In this talk we investigate a construction of generalized pseudo-Anosovs from interval maps, first introduced by de Carvalho. In particular, for a certain class of interval maps we give necessary and sufficient conditions for the construction to produce a true pseudo-Anosov, which may be recast in terms of the kneading data of the interval map. We also describe a bijection between such interval maps and the rationals in the open unit interval which captures the kneading data, and which increases monotonically in the entropy of the interval map.<br />
<br />
===Jon Chaika===<br />
<br />
"A strange limit of horocycle ergodic measures in a stratum of<br />
translation surfaces"<br />
<br />
The main result of this talk is that in the space of unit area<br />
translation surfaces with one cone point there is a weak-star limit of<br />
measures on periodic horocycles that is fully supported in the<br />
7-dimensional space but gives positive measure to a 3-dimensional<br />
submanifold. As a consequence we obtain a non-genericity result for the<br />
horocycle flow in this space. I will define the terminology. This is joint<br />
work with Osama Khalil and John Smillie.<br />
<br />
===Harrison Bray===<br />
<br />
"Volume-entropy rigidity for convex real projective manifolds"<br />
<br />
I will discuss joint work with Constantine, building on joint work with Adeboye and Constantine, on a volume-entropy rigidity result for finite volume strictly convex projective manifolds in dimension at least 3. The result is a Besson-Courtois-Gallot type theorem, using the barycenter method. As an application, we get a uniform lower bound on the Hilbert volume of a finite volume strictly convex projective manifold of dimension at least 3.<br />
<br />
===Claire Burrin===<br />
<br />
"A sparse equidistribution problem for expanding horocycles on the modular surface"<br />
<br />
Abstract: The orbits of the horocycle flow on hyperbolic surfaces (or orbifolds) are classified: each orbit is either dense or a closed horocycle around a cusp. Expanding closed horocycles are themselves asymptotically dense, and in fact become equidistributed on the surface. The precise rate of equidistribution is of interest; on the modular surface, Zagier observed that a particular rate is equivalent to the Riemann hypothesis being true. In this talk, I will discuss the asymptotic behavior of evenly spaced points along an expanding closed horocycle on the modular surface. In this problem, the number of points depends on the expansion rate of the horocycle, and the difficulty is that these points are no more invariant under the horocycle flow. This is based on joint work with Uri Shapira and Shucheng Yu.<br />
<br />
<br />
== Fall Abstracts ==<br />
<br />
===Andrew Zimmer===<br />
<br />
"An introduction to Anosov representations"<br />
<br />
Anosov representations are a special class of representations of finitely generated groups into Lie groups, which are defined using ideas from dynamics (namely, the theory of Anosov flows). In this talk, I will explain the definition (in a special case), give some examples, and describe some properties. I will focus on the case of representations into the general linear group where no background knowledge about Lie groups is required.<br />
<br />
<br />
===Chenxi Wu===<br />
<br />
"Asymptotic translation lengths on curve complexes and free factor complexes"<br />
<br />
The curve complex of a closed surface is a simplicial complex where the vertices are simple closed curves up to isotopy and faces are curves that are disjoint, and an analogy for the curve complex in the setting of Out(F_n) is the free factor complex. A pseudo-Anosov map induces a map from the curve graph to itself, and a basic question is to study the asymptotic translation length which is known to be a non-zero rational number. I will review some prior results on the study of this asymptotic translation length, as well as some of their analogies in the setting of free factor complexes. The latter part is an ongoing project with Hyrungryul Baik and Dongryul Kim. [https://wuchenxi.github.io/graph.pdf Slides]<br />
<br />
<br />
===Kathryn Lindsey===<br />
<br />
"Slices of Thurston's Master Teapot"<br />
<br />
Thurston's Master Teapot is the closure of the set of all points $(z,\lambda) \in \mathbb{C} \times \mathbb{R}$ such that $\lambda$ is the growth rate of a critically periodic unimodal self-map of an interval and $z$ is a Galois conjugate of $\lambda$. I will present a new characterization of which points are in this set. This characterization gives a way to think of each horizontal slice of the Master Teapot as an analogy of the Mandelbrot set for a "restricted iterated function system." An application of this characterization is that the Master Teapot is not invariant under the map $(z,\lambda) \mapsto (-z,\lambda)$. This presentation is based on joint work with Chenxi Wu.<br />
<br />
<br />
===Daniel Thompson===<br />
<br />
"Strong ergodic properties for equilibrium states in non-positive curvature"<br />
<br />
Equilibrium states for geodesic flows over compact rank 1 manifolds and sufficiently regular potential functions were studied by Burns, Climenhaga, Fisher and myself. We showed that if the higher rank set does not carry full topological pressure then the equilibrium state is unique. In this talk, I will describe some recent results on the dynamical properties of these unique equilibrium states. We show that these equilibrium states have the Kolmogorov property (joint with Ben Call), and that approximations of the equilibrium states by regular closed geodesics asymptotically satisfy a type of Central Limit Theorem (joint with Tianyu Wang).<br />
<br />
===Giulio Tiozzo===<br />
<br />
"Metrics on trees, laminations, and core entropy"<br />
<br />
The notion of core entropy, defined as the entropy of the restriction to the Hubbard tree,<br />
was formulated by W. Thurston to produce a combinatorial invariant which captures the topological complexity of polynomial Julia sets and varies in a rich fractal way over parameter space.<br />
<br />
Core entropy has been so far defined by looking at a Markov partition on the tree, or by a combinatorial construction involving infinite graphs. We will introduce a new interpretation of core entropy based on metrics on trees and, dually, on transverse measures on laminations<br />
defining the Julia set.<br />
<br />
On the one hand, this will define a new notion of transverse measures on quadratic laminations, completing the analogy with laminations on surfaces on the “other side” of Sullivan’s dictionary.<br />
Moreover, this is also related to a question of Milnor on a piecewise-linear analogue of Thurston iteration on Teichmueller space.<br />
<br />
===Clark Butler===<br />
<br />
"Unbounded uniformizations of Grkmov hyperbolic spaces"<br />
<br />
In a fundamental work Bonk, Heinonen, and Koskela established a conformal correspondence between Gromov hyperbolic spaces and bounded uniform spaces (satisfying certain additional hypotheses) that generalized the classical conformal correspondence between the Euclidean unit disk and the hyperbolic plane. We prove a similar conformal correspondence between Gromov hyperbolic spaces and unbounded uniform spaces that extends the correspondence between the Euclidean upper half plane and the hyperbolic plane. Our primary application of this uniformization procedure is to extend a number of recent results of Bjorn-Bjorn-Shanmugalingam for Besov spaces on compact metric spaces to Besov spaces on proper metric spaces. These results are derived through a Patterson-Sullivan-esque construction by realizing certain measures on these metric spaces as the boundary values of measures on uniformized Gromov hyperbolic spaces having these metric spaces as their boundaries.<br />
<br />
===Subhadip Dey===<br />
<br />
"Patterson-Sullivan measures for Anosov subgroups"<br />
<br />
Patterson-Sullivan measures were introduced by Patterson (1976) and Sullivan (1979) to study the Kleinian groups and their limit sets. In this talk, we discuss an extension of this classical construction for $P$-Anosov subgroups $\Gamma$ of $G$, where $G$ is a real semisimple Lie group and $P<G$ is a parabolic subgroup. In parallel with the theory for Kleinian groups, we will discuss how one can understand the Hausdorff dimension of the limit set of $\Gamma$ in terms of a certain critical exponent. This is a joint work with Michael Kapovich.<br />
<br />
===Nattalie Tamam===<br />
<br />
"Effective equidistribution of horospherical flows in infinite volume"<br />
<br />
Horospherical flows in homogeneous spaces have been studied intensively over the last several decades and have many surprising applications in various fields. Many basic results are under the assumption that the volume of the space is finite, which is crucial as many basic ergodic theorems fail in the setting of an infinite measure space.In the talk we will discuss the infinite volume setting, and specifically, when can we expect horospherical orbits to equidistribute. Our goal will be to provide an effective equidistribution result, with polynomial rate, for horospherical orbits in the frame bundle of certain infinite volume hyperbolic manifolds. This is a joint work with Jacqueline Warren.<br />
<br />
===Tariq Osman===<br />
<br />
"Limit Theorems for Quadratic Weyl Sums"<br />
<br />
Consider exponential sums of the form $S_N(x, \alpha) := \sum_{n = 1}^{N}e(1/2 n^2 x + n\alpha)$, known as quadratic Weyl sums. We will use homogeneous dynamics to establish a limiting distribution for $\frac{1}{\sqrt N} |S_N(x, \alpha)|$, when $\alpha$ is a fixed rational, and $x$ is chosen uniformly from the unit interval. Time permitting, we will study the tails of the limiting distribution to show that this is not the central limit theorem in disguise. (This is joint work with Francesco Cellarosi)<br />
<br />
===Wenyu Pan===<br />
<br />
"Exponential mixing of geodesic flows for geometrically finite hyperbolic manifolds with cusps"<br />
<br />
Let $\mathbb{H}^n$ be the hyperbolic $n$-space and $\Gamma$ be a geometrically finite discrete subgroup in $\operatorname{Isom}_{+}(\mathbb{H}^n)$ with parabolic elements. In the joint work with Jialun LI, we establish exponential mixing of the geodesic flow over the unit tangent bundle $T^1(\Gamma\backslash \mathbb{H}^n)$ with respect to the Bowen-Margulis-Sullivan measure. Our approach is to construct coding for the geodesic flow and then prove a Dolgopyat-type spectral estimate for the corresponding transfer operator. In the talk, I am planning to explain the construction of the coding. I will also discuss the application of obtaining a resonance-free region for the resolvent on $\Gamma\backslash \mathbb{H}^n$.</div>Cwu367https://wiki.math.wisc.edu/index.php?title=Dynamics_Seminar_2020-2021&diff=21084Dynamics Seminar 2020-20212021-03-30T15:46:03Z<p>Cwu367: </p>
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== Spring 2021 ==<br />
<br />
{| cellpadding="8"<br />
!align="left" | date<br />
!align="left" | speaker<br />
!align="left" | title<br />
!align="left" | host(s)<br />
|-<br />
|February 3<br />
|Daniel Woodhouse (Oxford)<br />
|Quasi-isometric Rigidity of graphs of free groups with cyclic edge groups<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|February 10<br />
|John Mackay (Bristol)<br />
|Poincaré profiles on graphs and groups, and a coarse geometric<br />
dichotomy<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|February 17<br />
|Benjamin Branman (Wisconsin)<br />
|Spaces of Pants Decompositions for Surfaces of Infinite Type<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|February 24<br />
|Uri Bader (Weizmann Institute)<br />
|Totally geodesic submanifolds of hyperbolic manifolds and arithmeticity.<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|March 3<br />
|Omri Sarig (Weizmann Institute)<br />
|(Dis)continuity of Lyapunov exponents for surface diffeomorphisms (joint with J. Buzz and S. Crovisier)<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|March 10<br />
|Chris Leininger (Rice University)<br />
|Billiards, symbolic coding, and cone metrics<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|March 17<br />
|Ethan Farber (Boston College)<br />
|Constructing pseudo-Anosovs from expanding interval maps<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|March 24<br />
|Jon Chaika (Utah)<br />
|A strange limit of horocycle ergodic measures in a stratum of<br />
translation surfaces<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|March 31<br />
|Harrison Bray (George Mason)<br />
|Volume-entropy rigidity for convex real projective manifolds<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|April 7<br />
|Claire Burrin (ETH Zurich)<br />
|TBA<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|April 21<br />
|Kasra Rafi (Toronto)<br />
|TBA<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|April 28<br />
|Matt Bainbridge (Indiana)<br />
|TBA<br />
|}<br />
<br />
== Fall 2020 ==<br />
<br />
{| cellpadding="8"<br />
!align="left" | date<br />
!align="left" | speaker<br />
!align="left" | title<br />
!align="left" | host(s)<br />
|-<br />
|September 16<br />
|Andrew Zimmer (Wisconsin)<br />
|An introduction to Anosov representations I<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|September 23<br />
|Andrew Zimmer (Wisconsin)<br />
|An introduction to Anosov representations II<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|September 30<br />
|Chenxi Wu (Wisconsin)<br />
|Asymptoic translation lengths on curve complexes and free factor complexes<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|October 7<br />
|Kathryn Lindsey (Boston College)<br />
|Slices of Thurston's Master Teapot<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|October 14<br />
|Daniel Thompson (Ohio State)<br />
|Strong ergodic properties for equilibrium states in non-positive curvature<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|October 21<br />
|Giulio Tiozzo (Toronto)<br />
|Metrics on trees, laminations, and core entropy<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|October 28<br />
|No talk<br />
|No talk<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|November 4<br />
|Clark Butler (Princeton)<br />
|"Unbounded uniformizations of Grkmov hyperbolic spaces"<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|November 11<br />
|Subhadip Dey (Yale)<br />
|Patterson-Sullivan measures for Anosov subgroups<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|November 18<br />
|Nattalie Tamam (UCSD)<br />
|Effective equidistribution of horospherical flows in infinite volume<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|November 25<br />
|Tariq Osman (Queens)<br />
|Limit Theorems for Quadratic Weyl Sums<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|December 2<br />
|Wenyu Pan (Chicago)<br />
|Exponential mixing of geodesic flows for geometrically finite hyperbolic manifolds with cusps<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
== Spring Abstracts ==<br />
<br />
===Daniel Woodhouse===<br />
<br />
"Quasi-isometric Rigidity of graphs of free groups with cyclic edge groups"<br />
<br />
Let F be a finitely rank free group.<br />
Let w_1 and w_2 be suitable random/generic elements in F.<br />
Consider the HNN extension G = <F, t | t w_1 t^{-1} = w_2 >.<br />
It is known from existing results that G will be 1-ended and hyperbolic.<br />
We have shown that G is quasi-isometrically rigid.<br />
That is to say that if a f.g. group H is quasi-isometric to G, then G and H are virtually isomorphic.<br />
The full result is for finite graphs of groups with virtually free vertex groups and and two-ended edge groups, but the statement is more technical -- not all such groups are QI-rigid.<br />
The main argument involves applying a new proof of Leighton's graph covering theorem.<br />
This is joint work with Sam Shepherd.<br />
<br />
===John Mackay===<br />
<br />
"Poincaré profiles on graphs and groups, and a coarse geometric<br />
dichotomy"<br />
<br />
The separation profile of an infinite graph was introduced by<br />
Benjamini-Schramm-Timar. It is a function which measures how<br />
well-connected the graph is by how hard it is to cut finite subgraphs<br />
into small pieces. In earlier joint work with David Hume and Romain<br />
Tessera, we introduced Poincaré profiles, generalising this concept by<br />
using p-Poincaré inequalities to measure the connected-ness of<br />
subgraphs. I will discuss this family of invariants, their applications<br />
to coarse embedding problems, and recent work finding the profiles of<br />
all connected unimodular Lie groups, where a dichotomy is exhibited.<br />
Joint with Hume and Tessera.<br />
<br />
===Benjamin Branman===<br />
<br />
"Spaces of Pants Decompositions for Surfaces of Infinite Type"<br />
<br />
We study the pants graph of surfaces of infinite type. When S is a surface of infinite type, the usual definition of the graph of pants decompositions yields a graph with infinitely many connected-components. In the first part of our talk, we study this disconnected graph. In particular, we show that the extended mapping class group of S is isomorphic to a proper subgroup of of the pants graph, in contrast to the finite-type case. In the second part of the talk, motivated by the Metaconjecture of Ivanov, we seek to endow the pants graph with additional structure. To this end, we define a coarser topology on the pants graph than the topology inherited from the graph structure. We show that our new space is path-connected, and that its automorphism group is isomorphic to the extended mapping class group.<br />
<br />
<br />
===Uri Bader===<br />
"Totally geodesic submanifolds of hyperbolic manifolds and arithmeticity."<br />
<br />
Compact hyperbolic manifolds are very interesting geometric objects.<br />
Maybe surprisingly, they are also interesting from an algebraic point of view:<br />
They are completely determined by their fundamental groups (this is Mostow's Theorem),<br />
which could be seen as a subgroup of the integer valued invertible matrices in some dimension, GL_n(Z).<br />
When the fundamental group is the Z-points of some algebraic subgroup of GL_n we say that the manifold is arithmetic.<br />
A question arises: is there a simple geometric criterion for arithmeticity for hyperbolic manifolds?<br />
Such a criterion, relating arithmeticity to the existence of totally geodesic submanifolds, was conjectured by Reid and by McMullen.<br />
In a recent work with Fisher, Miller and Stover we proved this conjecture.<br />
Our proof is based on the theory of AREA, namely Algebraic Representation of Ergodic Actions, which I have developed with Alex Furman in recent years.<br />
In this talk I will try to survey the subject in a colloquial manner.<br />
<br />
<br />
===Omri Sarig===<br />
<br />
"(Dis)continuity of Lyapunov exponents for surface diffeomorphisms" (joint with J. Buzz and S. Crovisier)"<br />
<br />
Let f be an infinitely differentiable surface diffeomorphism. Suppose we are given a sequence of ergodic invariant measures m_n which converge weak star to an ergodic limit m. What do we need to know on m_n to guarantee that the Lyapunov exponents of m_n converge to the Lyapunov exponents of m?<br />
The main result is that if m has positive entropy, and the entropy of m_n converges to the entropy of m, then the Lyapunov exponents of m_n converge to the Lyapunov exponents of m.<br />
This is joint work with J. Buzzi and S. Crovisier.<br />
<br />
===Chris Leininger===<br />
<br />
"Billiards, symbolic coding, and cone metrics"<br />
<br />
Given a polygon in the Euclidean or hyperbolic plane a billiard trajectory in the polygon is the geodesic path of a particle in the polygon bouncing off the sides so that the angle of reflection is equal to the angle incidence. A billiard trajectory determines a symbolic coding via the sides of the polygon encountered. In this talk I will describe joint work with Erlandsson and Sadanand showing the extent to which the set of all coding sequences, the bounce spectrum, determines the shape of a hyperbolic polygon. We completely characterize those polygons which are billiard rigid (the generic case), meaning that they are determined up to isometry by their bounce spectrum. When rigidity fails for a polygon P, we parameterize the space of polygons having the same bounce spectrum at P. These results for billiards are a consequence of a rigidity/flexibility theorem for negatively curved hyperbolic cone metrics. In the talk I will explain the theorem about hyperbolic billiards, comparing/contrasting it with the Euclidean case (earlier work with Duchin, Erlandsson, and Sadanand). Then I will explain the relationship with hyperbolic cone metrics, state our rigidity/flexibility theorem for such metrics, and as time allows describe some of the ideas involved in the proofs.<br />
<br />
===Ethan Farber===<br />
<br />
"Constructing pseudo-Anosovs from expanding interval maps"<br />
<br />
The celebrated Nielsen-Thurston classification of surface homeomorphisms says that, up to isotopy, there are three types of homeomorphisms of a closed, connected surface: (1) finite order, (2) reducible, and (3) pseudo-Anosov. Of these three types, pseudo-Anosovs are the most intriguing to dynamicists, with connections to symbolic dynamics and flat geometry. In this talk we investigate a construction of generalized pseudo-Anosovs from interval maps, first introduced by de Carvalho. In particular, for a certain class of interval maps we give necessary and sufficient conditions for the construction to produce a true pseudo-Anosov, which may be recast in terms of the kneading data of the interval map. We also describe a bijection between such interval maps and the rationals in the open unit interval which captures the kneading data, and which increases monotonically in the entropy of the interval map.<br />
<br />
===Jon Chaika===<br />
<br />
"A strange limit of horocycle ergodic measures in a stratum of<br />
translation surfaces"<br />
<br />
The main result of this talk is that in the space of unit area<br />
translation surfaces with one cone point there is a weak-star limit of<br />
measures on periodic horocycles that is fully supported in the<br />
7-dimensional space but gives positive measure to a 3-dimensional<br />
submanifold. As a consequence we obtain a non-genericity result for the<br />
horocycle flow in this space. I will define the terminology. This is joint<br />
work with Osama Khalil and John Smillie.<br />
<br />
===Harrison Bray===<br />
<br />
"Volume-entropy rigidity for convex real projective manifolds"<br />
<br />
I will discuss joint work with Constantine, building on joint work with Adeboye and Constantine, on a volume-entropy rigidity result for finite volume strictly convex projective manifolds in dimension at least 3. The result is a Besson-Courtois-Gallot type theorem, using the barycenter method. As an application, we get a uniform lower bound on the Hilbert volume of a finite volume strictly convex projective manifold of dimension at least 3.<br />
== Fall Abstracts ==<br />
<br />
===Andrew Zimmer===<br />
<br />
"An introduction to Anosov representations"<br />
<br />
Anosov representations are a special class of representations of finitely generated groups into Lie groups, which are defined using ideas from dynamics (namely, the theory of Anosov flows). In this talk, I will explain the definition (in a special case), give some examples, and describe some properties. I will focus on the case of representations into the general linear group where no background knowledge about Lie groups is required.<br />
<br />
<br />
===Chenxi Wu===<br />
<br />
"Asymptotic translation lengths on curve complexes and free factor complexes"<br />
<br />
The curve complex of a closed surface is a simplicial complex where the vertices are simple closed curves up to isotopy and faces are curves that are disjoint, and an analogy for the curve complex in the setting of Out(F_n) is the free factor complex. A pseudo-Anosov map induces a map from the curve graph to itself, and a basic question is to study the asymptotic translation length which is known to be a non-zero rational number. I will review some prior results on the study of this asymptotic translation length, as well as some of their analogies in the setting of free factor complexes. The latter part is an ongoing project with Hyrungryul Baik and Dongryul Kim. [https://wuchenxi.github.io/graph.pdf Slides]<br />
<br />
<br />
===Kathryn Lindsey===<br />
<br />
"Slices of Thurston's Master Teapot"<br />
<br />
Thurston's Master Teapot is the closure of the set of all points $(z,\lambda) \in \mathbb{C} \times \mathbb{R}$ such that $\lambda$ is the growth rate of a critically periodic unimodal self-map of an interval and $z$ is a Galois conjugate of $\lambda$. I will present a new characterization of which points are in this set. This characterization gives a way to think of each horizontal slice of the Master Teapot as an analogy of the Mandelbrot set for a "restricted iterated function system." An application of this characterization is that the Master Teapot is not invariant under the map $(z,\lambda) \mapsto (-z,\lambda)$. This presentation is based on joint work with Chenxi Wu.<br />
<br />
<br />
===Daniel Thompson===<br />
<br />
"Strong ergodic properties for equilibrium states in non-positive curvature"<br />
<br />
Equilibrium states for geodesic flows over compact rank 1 manifolds and sufficiently regular potential functions were studied by Burns, Climenhaga, Fisher and myself. We showed that if the higher rank set does not carry full topological pressure then the equilibrium state is unique. In this talk, I will describe some recent results on the dynamical properties of these unique equilibrium states. We show that these equilibrium states have the Kolmogorov property (joint with Ben Call), and that approximations of the equilibrium states by regular closed geodesics asymptotically satisfy a type of Central Limit Theorem (joint with Tianyu Wang).<br />
<br />
===Giulio Tiozzo===<br />
<br />
"Metrics on trees, laminations, and core entropy"<br />
<br />
The notion of core entropy, defined as the entropy of the restriction to the Hubbard tree,<br />
was formulated by W. Thurston to produce a combinatorial invariant which captures the topological complexity of polynomial Julia sets and varies in a rich fractal way over parameter space.<br />
<br />
Core entropy has been so far defined by looking at a Markov partition on the tree, or by a combinatorial construction involving infinite graphs. We will introduce a new interpretation of core entropy based on metrics on trees and, dually, on transverse measures on laminations<br />
defining the Julia set.<br />
<br />
On the one hand, this will define a new notion of transverse measures on quadratic laminations, completing the analogy with laminations on surfaces on the “other side” of Sullivan’s dictionary.<br />
Moreover, this is also related to a question of Milnor on a piecewise-linear analogue of Thurston iteration on Teichmueller space.<br />
<br />
===Clark Butler===<br />
<br />
"Unbounded uniformizations of Grkmov hyperbolic spaces"<br />
<br />
In a fundamental work Bonk, Heinonen, and Koskela established a conformal correspondence between Gromov hyperbolic spaces and bounded uniform spaces (satisfying certain additional hypotheses) that generalized the classical conformal correspondence between the Euclidean unit disk and the hyperbolic plane. We prove a similar conformal correspondence between Gromov hyperbolic spaces and unbounded uniform spaces that extends the correspondence between the Euclidean upper half plane and the hyperbolic plane. Our primary application of this uniformization procedure is to extend a number of recent results of Bjorn-Bjorn-Shanmugalingam for Besov spaces on compact metric spaces to Besov spaces on proper metric spaces. These results are derived through a Patterson-Sullivan-esque construction by realizing certain measures on these metric spaces as the boundary values of measures on uniformized Gromov hyperbolic spaces having these metric spaces as their boundaries.<br />
<br />
===Subhadip Dey===<br />
<br />
"Patterson-Sullivan measures for Anosov subgroups"<br />
<br />
Patterson-Sullivan measures were introduced by Patterson (1976) and Sullivan (1979) to study the Kleinian groups and their limit sets. In this talk, we discuss an extension of this classical construction for $P$-Anosov subgroups $\Gamma$ of $G$, where $G$ is a real semisimple Lie group and $P<G$ is a parabolic subgroup. In parallel with the theory for Kleinian groups, we will discuss how one can understand the Hausdorff dimension of the limit set of $\Gamma$ in terms of a certain critical exponent. This is a joint work with Michael Kapovich.<br />
<br />
===Nattalie Tamam===<br />
<br />
"Effective equidistribution of horospherical flows in infinite volume"<br />
<br />
Horospherical flows in homogeneous spaces have been studied intensively over the last several decades and have many surprising applications in various fields. Many basic results are under the assumption that the volume of the space is finite, which is crucial as many basic ergodic theorems fail in the setting of an infinite measure space.In the talk we will discuss the infinite volume setting, and specifically, when can we expect horospherical orbits to equidistribute. Our goal will be to provide an effective equidistribution result, with polynomial rate, for horospherical orbits in the frame bundle of certain infinite volume hyperbolic manifolds. This is a joint work with Jacqueline Warren.<br />
<br />
===Tariq Osman===<br />
<br />
"Limit Theorems for Quadratic Weyl Sums"<br />
<br />
Consider exponential sums of the form $S_N(x, \alpha) := \sum_{n = 1}^{N}e(1/2 n^2 x + n\alpha)$, known as quadratic Weyl sums. We will use homogeneous dynamics to establish a limiting distribution for $\frac{1}{\sqrt N} |S_N(x, \alpha)|$, when $\alpha$ is a fixed rational, and $x$ is chosen uniformly from the unit interval. Time permitting, we will study the tails of the limiting distribution to show that this is not the central limit theorem in disguise. (This is joint work with Francesco Cellarosi)<br />
<br />
===Wenyu Pan===<br />
<br />
"Exponential mixing of geodesic flows for geometrically finite hyperbolic manifolds with cusps"<br />
<br />
Let $\mathbb{H}^n$ be the hyperbolic $n$-space and $\Gamma$ be a geometrically finite discrete subgroup in $\operatorname{Isom}_{+}(\mathbb{H}^n)$ with parabolic elements. In the joint work with Jialun LI, we establish exponential mixing of the geodesic flow over the unit tangent bundle $T^1(\Gamma\backslash \mathbb{H}^n)$ with respect to the Bowen-Margulis-Sullivan measure. Our approach is to construct coding for the geodesic flow and then prove a Dolgopyat-type spectral estimate for the corresponding transfer operator. In the talk, I am planning to explain the construction of the coding. I will also discuss the application of obtaining a resonance-free region for the resolvent on $\Gamma\backslash \mathbb{H}^n$.</div>Cwu367https://wiki.math.wisc.edu/index.php?title=Dynamics_Seminar_2020-2021&diff=21051Dynamics Seminar 2020-20212021-03-23T21:27:29Z<p>Cwu367: /* Spring 2021 */</p>
<hr />
<div>The [[Dynamics Seminar]] meets virtually on '''Wednesdays''' from '''2:30pm - 3:20pm'''.<br />
<br> <br />
For more information, contact Chenxi Wu.<br />
To sign up for the mailing list send an email from your wisc.edu address to dynamics+join@g-groups.wisc.edu<br />
<br />
Meetings are on Zoom. To get Zoom info email Chenxi Wu. <br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
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<br />
== Spring 2021 ==<br />
<br />
{| cellpadding="8"<br />
!align="left" | date<br />
!align="left" | speaker<br />
!align="left" | title<br />
!align="left" | host(s)<br />
|-<br />
|February 3<br />
|Daniel Woodhouse (Oxford)<br />
|Quasi-isometric Rigidity of graphs of free groups with cyclic edge groups<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|February 10<br />
|John Mackay (Bristol)<br />
|Poincaré profiles on graphs and groups, and a coarse geometric<br />
dichotomy<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|February 17<br />
|Benjamin Branman (Wisconsin)<br />
|Spaces of Pants Decompositions for Surfaces of Infinite Type<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|February 24<br />
|Uri Bader (Weizmann Institute)<br />
|Totally geodesic submanifolds of hyperbolic manifolds and arithmeticity.<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|March 3<br />
|Omri Sarig (Weizmann Institute)<br />
|(Dis)continuity of Lyapunov exponents for surface diffeomorphisms (joint with J. Buzz and S. Crovisier)<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|March 10<br />
|Chris Leininger (Rice University)<br />
|Billiards, symbolic coding, and cone metrics<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|March 17<br />
|Ethan Farber (Boston College)<br />
|Constructing pseudo-Anosovs from expanding interval maps<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|March 24<br />
|Jon Chaika (Utah)<br />
|A strange limit of horocycle ergodic measures in a stratum of<br />
translation surfaces<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|March 31<br />
|Harrison Bray (George Mason)<br />
|TBA<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|April 7<br />
|Claire Burrin (ETH Zurich)<br />
|TBA<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|April 21<br />
|Kasra Rafi (Toronto)<br />
|TBA<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|April 28<br />
|Matt Bainbridge (Indiana)<br />
|TBA<br />
|}<br />
<br />
== Fall 2020 ==<br />
<br />
{| cellpadding="8"<br />
!align="left" | date<br />
!align="left" | speaker<br />
!align="left" | title<br />
!align="left" | host(s)<br />
|-<br />
|September 16<br />
|Andrew Zimmer (Wisconsin)<br />
|An introduction to Anosov representations I<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|September 23<br />
|Andrew Zimmer (Wisconsin)<br />
|An introduction to Anosov representations II<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|September 30<br />
|Chenxi Wu (Wisconsin)<br />
|Asymptoic translation lengths on curve complexes and free factor complexes<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|October 7<br />
|Kathryn Lindsey (Boston College)<br />
|Slices of Thurston's Master Teapot<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|October 14<br />
|Daniel Thompson (Ohio State)<br />
|Strong ergodic properties for equilibrium states in non-positive curvature<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|October 21<br />
|Giulio Tiozzo (Toronto)<br />
|Metrics on trees, laminations, and core entropy<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|October 28<br />
|No talk<br />
|No talk<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|November 4<br />
|Clark Butler (Princeton)<br />
|"Unbounded uniformizations of Grkmov hyperbolic spaces"<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|November 11<br />
|Subhadip Dey (Yale)<br />
|Patterson-Sullivan measures for Anosov subgroups<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|November 18<br />
|Nattalie Tamam (UCSD)<br />
|Effective equidistribution of horospherical flows in infinite volume<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|November 25<br />
|Tariq Osman (Queens)<br />
|Limit Theorems for Quadratic Weyl Sums<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|December 2<br />
|Wenyu Pan (Chicago)<br />
|Exponential mixing of geodesic flows for geometrically finite hyperbolic manifolds with cusps<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
== Spring Abstracts ==<br />
<br />
===Daniel Woodhouse===<br />
<br />
"Quasi-isometric Rigidity of graphs of free groups with cyclic edge groups"<br />
<br />
Let F be a finitely rank free group.<br />
Let w_1 and w_2 be suitable random/generic elements in F.<br />
Consider the HNN extension G = <F, t | t w_1 t^{-1} = w_2 >.<br />
It is known from existing results that G will be 1-ended and hyperbolic.<br />
We have shown that G is quasi-isometrically rigid.<br />
That is to say that if a f.g. group H is quasi-isometric to G, then G and H are virtually isomorphic.<br />
The full result is for finite graphs of groups with virtually free vertex groups and and two-ended edge groups, but the statement is more technical -- not all such groups are QI-rigid.<br />
The main argument involves applying a new proof of Leighton's graph covering theorem.<br />
This is joint work with Sam Shepherd.<br />
<br />
===John Mackay===<br />
<br />
"Poincaré profiles on graphs and groups, and a coarse geometric<br />
dichotomy"<br />
<br />
The separation profile of an infinite graph was introduced by<br />
Benjamini-Schramm-Timar. It is a function which measures how<br />
well-connected the graph is by how hard it is to cut finite subgraphs<br />
into small pieces. In earlier joint work with David Hume and Romain<br />
Tessera, we introduced Poincaré profiles, generalising this concept by<br />
using p-Poincaré inequalities to measure the connected-ness of<br />
subgraphs. I will discuss this family of invariants, their applications<br />
to coarse embedding problems, and recent work finding the profiles of<br />
all connected unimodular Lie groups, where a dichotomy is exhibited.<br />
Joint with Hume and Tessera.<br />
<br />
===Benjamin Branman===<br />
<br />
"Spaces of Pants Decompositions for Surfaces of Infinite Type"<br />
<br />
We study the pants graph of surfaces of infinite type. When S is a surface of infinite type, the usual definition of the graph of pants decompositions yields a graph with infinitely many connected-components. In the first part of our talk, we study this disconnected graph. In particular, we show that the extended mapping class group of S is isomorphic to a proper subgroup of of the pants graph, in contrast to the finite-type case. In the second part of the talk, motivated by the Metaconjecture of Ivanov, we seek to endow the pants graph with additional structure. To this end, we define a coarser topology on the pants graph than the topology inherited from the graph structure. We show that our new space is path-connected, and that its automorphism group is isomorphic to the extended mapping class group.<br />
<br />
<br />
===Uri Bader===<br />
"Totally geodesic submanifolds of hyperbolic manifolds and arithmeticity."<br />
<br />
Compact hyperbolic manifolds are very interesting geometric objects.<br />
Maybe surprisingly, they are also interesting from an algebraic point of view:<br />
They are completely determined by their fundamental groups (this is Mostow's Theorem),<br />
which could be seen as a subgroup of the integer valued invertible matrices in some dimension, GL_n(Z).<br />
When the fundamental group is the Z-points of some algebraic subgroup of GL_n we say that the manifold is arithmetic.<br />
A question arises: is there a simple geometric criterion for arithmeticity for hyperbolic manifolds?<br />
Such a criterion, relating arithmeticity to the existence of totally geodesic submanifolds, was conjectured by Reid and by McMullen.<br />
In a recent work with Fisher, Miller and Stover we proved this conjecture.<br />
Our proof is based on the theory of AREA, namely Algebraic Representation of Ergodic Actions, which I have developed with Alex Furman in recent years.<br />
In this talk I will try to survey the subject in a colloquial manner.<br />
<br />
<br />
===Omri Sarig===<br />
<br />
"(Dis)continuity of Lyapunov exponents for surface diffeomorphisms" (joint with J. Buzz and S. Crovisier)"<br />
<br />
Let f be an infinitely differentiable surface diffeomorphism. Suppose we are given a sequence of ergodic invariant measures m_n which converge weak star to an ergodic limit m. What do we need to know on m_n to guarantee that the Lyapunov exponents of m_n converge to the Lyapunov exponents of m?<br />
The main result is that if m has positive entropy, and the entropy of m_n converges to the entropy of m, then the Lyapunov exponents of m_n converge to the Lyapunov exponents of m.<br />
This is joint work with J. Buzzi and S. Crovisier.<br />
<br />
===Chris Leininger===<br />
<br />
"Billiards, symbolic coding, and cone metrics"<br />
<br />
Given a polygon in the Euclidean or hyperbolic plane a billiard trajectory in the polygon is the geodesic path of a particle in the polygon bouncing off the sides so that the angle of reflection is equal to the angle incidence. A billiard trajectory determines a symbolic coding via the sides of the polygon encountered. In this talk I will describe joint work with Erlandsson and Sadanand showing the extent to which the set of all coding sequences, the bounce spectrum, determines the shape of a hyperbolic polygon. We completely characterize those polygons which are billiard rigid (the generic case), meaning that they are determined up to isometry by their bounce spectrum. When rigidity fails for a polygon P, we parameterize the space of polygons having the same bounce spectrum at P. These results for billiards are a consequence of a rigidity/flexibility theorem for negatively curved hyperbolic cone metrics. In the talk I will explain the theorem about hyperbolic billiards, comparing/contrasting it with the Euclidean case (earlier work with Duchin, Erlandsson, and Sadanand). Then I will explain the relationship with hyperbolic cone metrics, state our rigidity/flexibility theorem for such metrics, and as time allows describe some of the ideas involved in the proofs.<br />
<br />
===Ethan Farber===<br />
<br />
"Constructing pseudo-Anosovs from expanding interval maps"<br />
<br />
The celebrated Nielsen-Thurston classification of surface homeomorphisms says that, up to isotopy, there are three types of homeomorphisms of a closed, connected surface: (1) finite order, (2) reducible, and (3) pseudo-Anosov. Of these three types, pseudo-Anosovs are the most intriguing to dynamicists, with connections to symbolic dynamics and flat geometry. In this talk we investigate a construction of generalized pseudo-Anosovs from interval maps, first introduced by de Carvalho. In particular, for a certain class of interval maps we give necessary and sufficient conditions for the construction to produce a true pseudo-Anosov, which may be recast in terms of the kneading data of the interval map. We also describe a bijection between such interval maps and the rationals in the open unit interval which captures the kneading data, and which increases monotonically in the entropy of the interval map.<br />
<br />
===Jon Chaika===<br />
<br />
"A strange limit of horocycle ergodic measures in a stratum of<br />
translation surfaces"<br />
<br />
The main result of this talk is that in the space of unit area<br />
translation surfaces with one cone point there is a weak-star limit of<br />
measures on periodic horocycles that is fully supported in the<br />
7-dimensional space but gives positive measure to a 3-dimensional<br />
submanifold. As a consequence we obtain a non-genericity result for the<br />
horocycle flow in this space. I will define the terminology. This is joint<br />
work with Osama Khalil and John Smillie.<br />
<br />
<br />
== Fall Abstracts ==<br />
<br />
===Andrew Zimmer===<br />
<br />
"An introduction to Anosov representations"<br />
<br />
Anosov representations are a special class of representations of finitely generated groups into Lie groups, which are defined using ideas from dynamics (namely, the theory of Anosov flows). In this talk, I will explain the definition (in a special case), give some examples, and describe some properties. I will focus on the case of representations into the general linear group where no background knowledge about Lie groups is required.<br />
<br />
<br />
===Chenxi Wu===<br />
<br />
"Asymptotic translation lengths on curve complexes and free factor complexes"<br />
<br />
The curve complex of a closed surface is a simplicial complex where the vertices are simple closed curves up to isotopy and faces are curves that are disjoint, and an analogy for the curve complex in the setting of Out(F_n) is the free factor complex. A pseudo-Anosov map induces a map from the curve graph to itself, and a basic question is to study the asymptotic translation length which is known to be a non-zero rational number. I will review some prior results on the study of this asymptotic translation length, as well as some of their analogies in the setting of free factor complexes. The latter part is an ongoing project with Hyrungryul Baik and Dongryul Kim. [https://wuchenxi.github.io/graph.pdf Slides]<br />
<br />
<br />
===Kathryn Lindsey===<br />
<br />
"Slices of Thurston's Master Teapot"<br />
<br />
Thurston's Master Teapot is the closure of the set of all points $(z,\lambda) \in \mathbb{C} \times \mathbb{R}$ such that $\lambda$ is the growth rate of a critically periodic unimodal self-map of an interval and $z$ is a Galois conjugate of $\lambda$. I will present a new characterization of which points are in this set. This characterization gives a way to think of each horizontal slice of the Master Teapot as an analogy of the Mandelbrot set for a "restricted iterated function system." An application of this characterization is that the Master Teapot is not invariant under the map $(z,\lambda) \mapsto (-z,\lambda)$. This presentation is based on joint work with Chenxi Wu.<br />
<br />
<br />
===Daniel Thompson===<br />
<br />
"Strong ergodic properties for equilibrium states in non-positive curvature"<br />
<br />
Equilibrium states for geodesic flows over compact rank 1 manifolds and sufficiently regular potential functions were studied by Burns, Climenhaga, Fisher and myself. We showed that if the higher rank set does not carry full topological pressure then the equilibrium state is unique. In this talk, I will describe some recent results on the dynamical properties of these unique equilibrium states. We show that these equilibrium states have the Kolmogorov property (joint with Ben Call), and that approximations of the equilibrium states by regular closed geodesics asymptotically satisfy a type of Central Limit Theorem (joint with Tianyu Wang).<br />
<br />
===Giulio Tiozzo===<br />
<br />
"Metrics on trees, laminations, and core entropy"<br />
<br />
The notion of core entropy, defined as the entropy of the restriction to the Hubbard tree,<br />
was formulated by W. Thurston to produce a combinatorial invariant which captures the topological complexity of polynomial Julia sets and varies in a rich fractal way over parameter space.<br />
<br />
Core entropy has been so far defined by looking at a Markov partition on the tree, or by a combinatorial construction involving infinite graphs. We will introduce a new interpretation of core entropy based on metrics on trees and, dually, on transverse measures on laminations<br />
defining the Julia set.<br />
<br />
On the one hand, this will define a new notion of transverse measures on quadratic laminations, completing the analogy with laminations on surfaces on the “other side” of Sullivan’s dictionary.<br />
Moreover, this is also related to a question of Milnor on a piecewise-linear analogue of Thurston iteration on Teichmueller space.<br />
<br />
===Clark Butler===<br />
<br />
"Unbounded uniformizations of Grkmov hyperbolic spaces"<br />
<br />
In a fundamental work Bonk, Heinonen, and Koskela established a conformal correspondence between Gromov hyperbolic spaces and bounded uniform spaces (satisfying certain additional hypotheses) that generalized the classical conformal correspondence between the Euclidean unit disk and the hyperbolic plane. We prove a similar conformal correspondence between Gromov hyperbolic spaces and unbounded uniform spaces that extends the correspondence between the Euclidean upper half plane and the hyperbolic plane. Our primary application of this uniformization procedure is to extend a number of recent results of Bjorn-Bjorn-Shanmugalingam for Besov spaces on compact metric spaces to Besov spaces on proper metric spaces. These results are derived through a Patterson-Sullivan-esque construction by realizing certain measures on these metric spaces as the boundary values of measures on uniformized Gromov hyperbolic spaces having these metric spaces as their boundaries.<br />
<br />
===Subhadip Dey===<br />
<br />
"Patterson-Sullivan measures for Anosov subgroups"<br />
<br />
Patterson-Sullivan measures were introduced by Patterson (1976) and Sullivan (1979) to study the Kleinian groups and their limit sets. In this talk, we discuss an extension of this classical construction for $P$-Anosov subgroups $\Gamma$ of $G$, where $G$ is a real semisimple Lie group and $P<G$ is a parabolic subgroup. In parallel with the theory for Kleinian groups, we will discuss how one can understand the Hausdorff dimension of the limit set of $\Gamma$ in terms of a certain critical exponent. This is a joint work with Michael Kapovich.<br />
<br />
===Nattalie Tamam===<br />
<br />
"Effective equidistribution of horospherical flows in infinite volume"<br />
<br />
Horospherical flows in homogeneous spaces have been studied intensively over the last several decades and have many surprising applications in various fields. Many basic results are under the assumption that the volume of the space is finite, which is crucial as many basic ergodic theorems fail in the setting of an infinite measure space.In the talk we will discuss the infinite volume setting, and specifically, when can we expect horospherical orbits to equidistribute. Our goal will be to provide an effective equidistribution result, with polynomial rate, for horospherical orbits in the frame bundle of certain infinite volume hyperbolic manifolds. This is a joint work with Jacqueline Warren.<br />
<br />
===Tariq Osman===<br />
<br />
"Limit Theorems for Quadratic Weyl Sums"<br />
<br />
Consider exponential sums of the form $S_N(x, \alpha) := \sum_{n = 1}^{N}e(1/2 n^2 x + n\alpha)$, known as quadratic Weyl sums. We will use homogeneous dynamics to establish a limiting distribution for $\frac{1}{\sqrt N} |S_N(x, \alpha)|$, when $\alpha$ is a fixed rational, and $x$ is chosen uniformly from the unit interval. Time permitting, we will study the tails of the limiting distribution to show that this is not the central limit theorem in disguise. (This is joint work with Francesco Cellarosi)<br />
<br />
===Wenyu Pan===<br />
<br />
"Exponential mixing of geodesic flows for geometrically finite hyperbolic manifolds with cusps"<br />
<br />
Let $\mathbb{H}^n$ be the hyperbolic $n$-space and $\Gamma$ be a geometrically finite discrete subgroup in $\operatorname{Isom}_{+}(\mathbb{H}^n)$ with parabolic elements. In the joint work with Jialun LI, we establish exponential mixing of the geodesic flow over the unit tangent bundle $T^1(\Gamma\backslash \mathbb{H}^n)$ with respect to the Bowen-Margulis-Sullivan measure. Our approach is to construct coding for the geodesic flow and then prove a Dolgopyat-type spectral estimate for the corresponding transfer operator. In the talk, I am planning to explain the construction of the coding. I will also discuss the application of obtaining a resonance-free region for the resolvent on $\Gamma\backslash \mathbb{H}^n$.</div>Cwu367https://wiki.math.wisc.edu/index.php?title=Dynamics_Seminar_2020-2021&diff=21050Dynamics Seminar 2020-20212021-03-23T21:26:52Z<p>Cwu367: </p>
<hr />
<div>The [[Dynamics Seminar]] meets virtually on '''Wednesdays''' from '''2:30pm - 3:20pm'''.<br />
<br> <br />
For more information, contact Chenxi Wu.<br />
To sign up for the mailing list send an email from your wisc.edu address to dynamics+join@g-groups.wisc.edu<br />
<br />
Meetings are on Zoom. To get Zoom info email Chenxi Wu. <br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
[[Image:Hawk.jpg|thumb|300px]]<br />
<br />
== Spring 2021 ==<br />
<br />
{| cellpadding="8"<br />
!align="left" | date<br />
!align="left" | speaker<br />
!align="left" | title<br />
!align="left" | host(s)<br />
|-<br />
|February 3<br />
|Daniel Woodhouse (Oxford)<br />
|Quasi-isometric Rigidity of graphs of free groups with cyclic edge groups<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|February 10<br />
|John Mackay (Bristol)<br />
|Poincaré profiles on graphs and groups, and a coarse geometric<br />
dichotomy<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|February 17<br />
|Benjamin Branman (Wisconsin)<br />
|Spaces of Pants Decompositions for Surfaces of Infinite Type<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|February 24<br />
|Uri Bader (Weizmann Institute)<br />
|Totally geodesic submanifolds of hyperbolic manifolds and arithmeticity.<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|March 3<br />
|Omri Sarig (Weizmann Institute)<br />
|(Dis)continuity of Lyapunov exponents for surface diffeomorphisms (joint with J. Buzz and S. Crovisier)<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|March 10<br />
|Chris Leininger (Rice University)<br />
|Billiards, symbolic coding, and cone metrics<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|March 17<br />
|Ethan Farber (Boston College)<br />
|Constructing pseudo-Anosovs from expanding interval maps<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|March 24<br />
|Jon Chaika (Utah)<br />
|strange limit of horocycle ergodic measures in a stratum of<br />
translation surfaces<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|March 31<br />
|Harrison Bray (George Mason)<br />
|TBA<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|April 7<br />
|Claire Burrin (ETH Zurich)<br />
|TBA<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|April 21<br />
|Kasra Rafi (Toronto)<br />
|TBA<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|April 28<br />
|Matt Bainbridge (Indiana)<br />
|TBA<br />
|}<br />
<br />
== Fall 2020 ==<br />
<br />
{| cellpadding="8"<br />
!align="left" | date<br />
!align="left" | speaker<br />
!align="left" | title<br />
!align="left" | host(s)<br />
|-<br />
|September 16<br />
|Andrew Zimmer (Wisconsin)<br />
|An introduction to Anosov representations I<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|September 23<br />
|Andrew Zimmer (Wisconsin)<br />
|An introduction to Anosov representations II<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|September 30<br />
|Chenxi Wu (Wisconsin)<br />
|Asymptoic translation lengths on curve complexes and free factor complexes<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|October 7<br />
|Kathryn Lindsey (Boston College)<br />
|Slices of Thurston's Master Teapot<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|October 14<br />
|Daniel Thompson (Ohio State)<br />
|Strong ergodic properties for equilibrium states in non-positive curvature<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|October 21<br />
|Giulio Tiozzo (Toronto)<br />
|Metrics on trees, laminations, and core entropy<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|October 28<br />
|No talk<br />
|No talk<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|November 4<br />
|Clark Butler (Princeton)<br />
|"Unbounded uniformizations of Grkmov hyperbolic spaces"<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|November 11<br />
|Subhadip Dey (Yale)<br />
|Patterson-Sullivan measures for Anosov subgroups<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|November 18<br />
|Nattalie Tamam (UCSD)<br />
|Effective equidistribution of horospherical flows in infinite volume<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|November 25<br />
|Tariq Osman (Queens)<br />
|Limit Theorems for Quadratic Weyl Sums<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|December 2<br />
|Wenyu Pan (Chicago)<br />
|Exponential mixing of geodesic flows for geometrically finite hyperbolic manifolds with cusps<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
== Spring Abstracts ==<br />
<br />
===Daniel Woodhouse===<br />
<br />
"Quasi-isometric Rigidity of graphs of free groups with cyclic edge groups"<br />
<br />
Let F be a finitely rank free group.<br />
Let w_1 and w_2 be suitable random/generic elements in F.<br />
Consider the HNN extension G = <F, t | t w_1 t^{-1} = w_2 >.<br />
It is known from existing results that G will be 1-ended and hyperbolic.<br />
We have shown that G is quasi-isometrically rigid.<br />
That is to say that if a f.g. group H is quasi-isometric to G, then G and H are virtually isomorphic.<br />
The full result is for finite graphs of groups with virtually free vertex groups and and two-ended edge groups, but the statement is more technical -- not all such groups are QI-rigid.<br />
The main argument involves applying a new proof of Leighton's graph covering theorem.<br />
This is joint work with Sam Shepherd.<br />
<br />
===John Mackay===<br />
<br />
"Poincaré profiles on graphs and groups, and a coarse geometric<br />
dichotomy"<br />
<br />
The separation profile of an infinite graph was introduced by<br />
Benjamini-Schramm-Timar. It is a function which measures how<br />
well-connected the graph is by how hard it is to cut finite subgraphs<br />
into small pieces. In earlier joint work with David Hume and Romain<br />
Tessera, we introduced Poincaré profiles, generalising this concept by<br />
using p-Poincaré inequalities to measure the connected-ness of<br />
subgraphs. I will discuss this family of invariants, their applications<br />
to coarse embedding problems, and recent work finding the profiles of<br />
all connected unimodular Lie groups, where a dichotomy is exhibited.<br />
Joint with Hume and Tessera.<br />
<br />
===Benjamin Branman===<br />
<br />
"Spaces of Pants Decompositions for Surfaces of Infinite Type"<br />
<br />
We study the pants graph of surfaces of infinite type. When S is a surface of infinite type, the usual definition of the graph of pants decompositions yields a graph with infinitely many connected-components. In the first part of our talk, we study this disconnected graph. In particular, we show that the extended mapping class group of S is isomorphic to a proper subgroup of of the pants graph, in contrast to the finite-type case. In the second part of the talk, motivated by the Metaconjecture of Ivanov, we seek to endow the pants graph with additional structure. To this end, we define a coarser topology on the pants graph than the topology inherited from the graph structure. We show that our new space is path-connected, and that its automorphism group is isomorphic to the extended mapping class group.<br />
<br />
<br />
===Uri Bader===<br />
"Totally geodesic submanifolds of hyperbolic manifolds and arithmeticity."<br />
<br />
Compact hyperbolic manifolds are very interesting geometric objects.<br />
Maybe surprisingly, they are also interesting from an algebraic point of view:<br />
They are completely determined by their fundamental groups (this is Mostow's Theorem),<br />
which could be seen as a subgroup of the integer valued invertible matrices in some dimension, GL_n(Z).<br />
When the fundamental group is the Z-points of some algebraic subgroup of GL_n we say that the manifold is arithmetic.<br />
A question arises: is there a simple geometric criterion for arithmeticity for hyperbolic manifolds?<br />
Such a criterion, relating arithmeticity to the existence of totally geodesic submanifolds, was conjectured by Reid and by McMullen.<br />
In a recent work with Fisher, Miller and Stover we proved this conjecture.<br />
Our proof is based on the theory of AREA, namely Algebraic Representation of Ergodic Actions, which I have developed with Alex Furman in recent years.<br />
In this talk I will try to survey the subject in a colloquial manner.<br />
<br />
<br />
===Omri Sarig===<br />
<br />
"(Dis)continuity of Lyapunov exponents for surface diffeomorphisms" (joint with J. Buzz and S. Crovisier)"<br />
<br />
Let f be an infinitely differentiable surface diffeomorphism. Suppose we are given a sequence of ergodic invariant measures m_n which converge weak star to an ergodic limit m. What do we need to know on m_n to guarantee that the Lyapunov exponents of m_n converge to the Lyapunov exponents of m?<br />
The main result is that if m has positive entropy, and the entropy of m_n converges to the entropy of m, then the Lyapunov exponents of m_n converge to the Lyapunov exponents of m.<br />
This is joint work with J. Buzzi and S. Crovisier.<br />
<br />
===Chris Leininger===<br />
<br />
"Billiards, symbolic coding, and cone metrics"<br />
<br />
Given a polygon in the Euclidean or hyperbolic plane a billiard trajectory in the polygon is the geodesic path of a particle in the polygon bouncing off the sides so that the angle of reflection is equal to the angle incidence. A billiard trajectory determines a symbolic coding via the sides of the polygon encountered. In this talk I will describe joint work with Erlandsson and Sadanand showing the extent to which the set of all coding sequences, the bounce spectrum, determines the shape of a hyperbolic polygon. We completely characterize those polygons which are billiard rigid (the generic case), meaning that they are determined up to isometry by their bounce spectrum. When rigidity fails for a polygon P, we parameterize the space of polygons having the same bounce spectrum at P. These results for billiards are a consequence of a rigidity/flexibility theorem for negatively curved hyperbolic cone metrics. In the talk I will explain the theorem about hyperbolic billiards, comparing/contrasting it with the Euclidean case (earlier work with Duchin, Erlandsson, and Sadanand). Then I will explain the relationship with hyperbolic cone metrics, state our rigidity/flexibility theorem for such metrics, and as time allows describe some of the ideas involved in the proofs.<br />
<br />
===Ethan Farber===<br />
<br />
"Constructing pseudo-Anosovs from expanding interval maps"<br />
<br />
The celebrated Nielsen-Thurston classification of surface homeomorphisms says that, up to isotopy, there are three types of homeomorphisms of a closed, connected surface: (1) finite order, (2) reducible, and (3) pseudo-Anosov. Of these three types, pseudo-Anosovs are the most intriguing to dynamicists, with connections to symbolic dynamics and flat geometry. In this talk we investigate a construction of generalized pseudo-Anosovs from interval maps, first introduced by de Carvalho. In particular, for a certain class of interval maps we give necessary and sufficient conditions for the construction to produce a true pseudo-Anosov, which may be recast in terms of the kneading data of the interval map. We also describe a bijection between such interval maps and the rationals in the open unit interval which captures the kneading data, and which increases monotonically in the entropy of the interval map.<br />
<br />
===Jon Chaika===<br />
<br />
"A strange limit of horocycle ergodic measures in a stratum of<br />
translation surfaces"<br />
<br />
The main result of this talk is that in the space of unit area<br />
translation surfaces with one cone point there is a weak-star limit of<br />
measures on periodic horocycles that is fully supported in the<br />
7-dimensional space but gives positive measure to a 3-dimensional<br />
submanifold. As a consequence we obtain a non-genericity result for the<br />
horocycle flow in this space. I will define the terminology. This is joint<br />
work with Osama Khalil and John Smillie.<br />
<br />
<br />
== Fall Abstracts ==<br />
<br />
===Andrew Zimmer===<br />
<br />
"An introduction to Anosov representations"<br />
<br />
Anosov representations are a special class of representations of finitely generated groups into Lie groups, which are defined using ideas from dynamics (namely, the theory of Anosov flows). In this talk, I will explain the definition (in a special case), give some examples, and describe some properties. I will focus on the case of representations into the general linear group where no background knowledge about Lie groups is required.<br />
<br />
<br />
===Chenxi Wu===<br />
<br />
"Asymptotic translation lengths on curve complexes and free factor complexes"<br />
<br />
The curve complex of a closed surface is a simplicial complex where the vertices are simple closed curves up to isotopy and faces are curves that are disjoint, and an analogy for the curve complex in the setting of Out(F_n) is the free factor complex. A pseudo-Anosov map induces a map from the curve graph to itself, and a basic question is to study the asymptotic translation length which is known to be a non-zero rational number. I will review some prior results on the study of this asymptotic translation length, as well as some of their analogies in the setting of free factor complexes. The latter part is an ongoing project with Hyrungryul Baik and Dongryul Kim. [https://wuchenxi.github.io/graph.pdf Slides]<br />
<br />
<br />
===Kathryn Lindsey===<br />
<br />
"Slices of Thurston's Master Teapot"<br />
<br />
Thurston's Master Teapot is the closure of the set of all points $(z,\lambda) \in \mathbb{C} \times \mathbb{R}$ such that $\lambda$ is the growth rate of a critically periodic unimodal self-map of an interval and $z$ is a Galois conjugate of $\lambda$. I will present a new characterization of which points are in this set. This characterization gives a way to think of each horizontal slice of the Master Teapot as an analogy of the Mandelbrot set for a "restricted iterated function system." An application of this characterization is that the Master Teapot is not invariant under the map $(z,\lambda) \mapsto (-z,\lambda)$. This presentation is based on joint work with Chenxi Wu.<br />
<br />
<br />
===Daniel Thompson===<br />
<br />
"Strong ergodic properties for equilibrium states in non-positive curvature"<br />
<br />
Equilibrium states for geodesic flows over compact rank 1 manifolds and sufficiently regular potential functions were studied by Burns, Climenhaga, Fisher and myself. We showed that if the higher rank set does not carry full topological pressure then the equilibrium state is unique. In this talk, I will describe some recent results on the dynamical properties of these unique equilibrium states. We show that these equilibrium states have the Kolmogorov property (joint with Ben Call), and that approximations of the equilibrium states by regular closed geodesics asymptotically satisfy a type of Central Limit Theorem (joint with Tianyu Wang).<br />
<br />
===Giulio Tiozzo===<br />
<br />
"Metrics on trees, laminations, and core entropy"<br />
<br />
The notion of core entropy, defined as the entropy of the restriction to the Hubbard tree,<br />
was formulated by W. Thurston to produce a combinatorial invariant which captures the topological complexity of polynomial Julia sets and varies in a rich fractal way over parameter space.<br />
<br />
Core entropy has been so far defined by looking at a Markov partition on the tree, or by a combinatorial construction involving infinite graphs. We will introduce a new interpretation of core entropy based on metrics on trees and, dually, on transverse measures on laminations<br />
defining the Julia set.<br />
<br />
On the one hand, this will define a new notion of transverse measures on quadratic laminations, completing the analogy with laminations on surfaces on the “other side” of Sullivan’s dictionary.<br />
Moreover, this is also related to a question of Milnor on a piecewise-linear analogue of Thurston iteration on Teichmueller space.<br />
<br />
===Clark Butler===<br />
<br />
"Unbounded uniformizations of Grkmov hyperbolic spaces"<br />
<br />
In a fundamental work Bonk, Heinonen, and Koskela established a conformal correspondence between Gromov hyperbolic spaces and bounded uniform spaces (satisfying certain additional hypotheses) that generalized the classical conformal correspondence between the Euclidean unit disk and the hyperbolic plane. We prove a similar conformal correspondence between Gromov hyperbolic spaces and unbounded uniform spaces that extends the correspondence between the Euclidean upper half plane and the hyperbolic plane. Our primary application of this uniformization procedure is to extend a number of recent results of Bjorn-Bjorn-Shanmugalingam for Besov spaces on compact metric spaces to Besov spaces on proper metric spaces. These results are derived through a Patterson-Sullivan-esque construction by realizing certain measures on these metric spaces as the boundary values of measures on uniformized Gromov hyperbolic spaces having these metric spaces as their boundaries.<br />
<br />
===Subhadip Dey===<br />
<br />
"Patterson-Sullivan measures for Anosov subgroups"<br />
<br />
Patterson-Sullivan measures were introduced by Patterson (1976) and Sullivan (1979) to study the Kleinian groups and their limit sets. In this talk, we discuss an extension of this classical construction for $P$-Anosov subgroups $\Gamma$ of $G$, where $G$ is a real semisimple Lie group and $P<G$ is a parabolic subgroup. In parallel with the theory for Kleinian groups, we will discuss how one can understand the Hausdorff dimension of the limit set of $\Gamma$ in terms of a certain critical exponent. This is a joint work with Michael Kapovich.<br />
<br />
===Nattalie Tamam===<br />
<br />
"Effective equidistribution of horospherical flows in infinite volume"<br />
<br />
Horospherical flows in homogeneous spaces have been studied intensively over the last several decades and have many surprising applications in various fields. Many basic results are under the assumption that the volume of the space is finite, which is crucial as many basic ergodic theorems fail in the setting of an infinite measure space.In the talk we will discuss the infinite volume setting, and specifically, when can we expect horospherical orbits to equidistribute. Our goal will be to provide an effective equidistribution result, with polynomial rate, for horospherical orbits in the frame bundle of certain infinite volume hyperbolic manifolds. This is a joint work with Jacqueline Warren.<br />
<br />
===Tariq Osman===<br />
<br />
"Limit Theorems for Quadratic Weyl Sums"<br />
<br />
Consider exponential sums of the form $S_N(x, \alpha) := \sum_{n = 1}^{N}e(1/2 n^2 x + n\alpha)$, known as quadratic Weyl sums. We will use homogeneous dynamics to establish a limiting distribution for $\frac{1}{\sqrt N} |S_N(x, \alpha)|$, when $\alpha$ is a fixed rational, and $x$ is chosen uniformly from the unit interval. Time permitting, we will study the tails of the limiting distribution to show that this is not the central limit theorem in disguise. (This is joint work with Francesco Cellarosi)<br />
<br />
===Wenyu Pan===<br />
<br />
"Exponential mixing of geodesic flows for geometrically finite hyperbolic manifolds with cusps"<br />
<br />
Let $\mathbb{H}^n$ be the hyperbolic $n$-space and $\Gamma$ be a geometrically finite discrete subgroup in $\operatorname{Isom}_{+}(\mathbb{H}^n)$ with parabolic elements. In the joint work with Jialun LI, we establish exponential mixing of the geodesic flow over the unit tangent bundle $T^1(\Gamma\backslash \mathbb{H}^n)$ with respect to the Bowen-Margulis-Sullivan measure. Our approach is to construct coding for the geodesic flow and then prove a Dolgopyat-type spectral estimate for the corresponding transfer operator. In the talk, I am planning to explain the construction of the coding. I will also discuss the application of obtaining a resonance-free region for the resolvent on $\Gamma\backslash \mathbb{H}^n$.</div>Cwu367https://wiki.math.wisc.edu/index.php?title=Dynamics_Seminar_2020-2021&diff=21005Dynamics Seminar 2020-20212021-03-16T20:15:16Z<p>Cwu367: </p>
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== Spring 2021 ==<br />
<br />
{| cellpadding="8"<br />
!align="left" | date<br />
!align="left" | speaker<br />
!align="left" | title<br />
!align="left" | host(s)<br />
|-<br />
|February 3<br />
|Daniel Woodhouse (Oxford)<br />
|Quasi-isometric Rigidity of graphs of free groups with cyclic edge groups<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|February 10<br />
|John Mackay (Bristol)<br />
|Poincaré profiles on graphs and groups, and a coarse geometric<br />
dichotomy<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|February 17<br />
|Benjamin Branman (Wisconsin)<br />
|Spaces of Pants Decompositions for Surfaces of Infinite Type<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|February 24<br />
|Uri Bader (Weizmann Institute)<br />
|Totally geodesic submanifolds of hyperbolic manifolds and arithmeticity.<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|March 3<br />
|Omri Sarig (Weizmann Institute)<br />
|(Dis)continuity of Lyapunov exponents for surface diffeomorphisms (joint with J. Buzz and S. Crovisier)<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|March 10<br />
|Chris Leininger (Rice University)<br />
|Billiards, symbolic coding, and cone metrics<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|March 17<br />
|Ethan Farber (Boston College)<br />
|Constructing pseudo-Anosovs from expanding interval maps<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|March 24<br />
|Jon Chaika (Utah)<br />
|TBA<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|March 31<br />
|Harrison Bray (George Mason)<br />
|TBA<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|April 7<br />
|Claire Burrin (ETH Zurich)<br />
|TBA<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|April 21<br />
|Kasra Rafi (Toronto)<br />
|TBA<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|April 28<br />
|Matt Bainbridge (Indiana)<br />
|TBA<br />
|}<br />
<br />
== Fall 2020 ==<br />
<br />
{| cellpadding="8"<br />
!align="left" | date<br />
!align="left" | speaker<br />
!align="left" | title<br />
!align="left" | host(s)<br />
|-<br />
|September 16<br />
|Andrew Zimmer (Wisconsin)<br />
|An introduction to Anosov representations I<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|September 23<br />
|Andrew Zimmer (Wisconsin)<br />
|An introduction to Anosov representations II<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|September 30<br />
|Chenxi Wu (Wisconsin)<br />
|Asymptoic translation lengths on curve complexes and free factor complexes<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|October 7<br />
|Kathryn Lindsey (Boston College)<br />
|Slices of Thurston's Master Teapot<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|October 14<br />
|Daniel Thompson (Ohio State)<br />
|Strong ergodic properties for equilibrium states in non-positive curvature<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|October 21<br />
|Giulio Tiozzo (Toronto)<br />
|Metrics on trees, laminations, and core entropy<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|October 28<br />
|No talk<br />
|No talk<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|November 4<br />
|Clark Butler (Princeton)<br />
|"Unbounded uniformizations of Grkmov hyperbolic spaces"<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|November 11<br />
|Subhadip Dey (Yale)<br />
|Patterson-Sullivan measures for Anosov subgroups<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|November 18<br />
|Nattalie Tamam (UCSD)<br />
|Effective equidistribution of horospherical flows in infinite volume<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|November 25<br />
|Tariq Osman (Queens)<br />
|Limit Theorems for Quadratic Weyl Sums<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|December 2<br />
|Wenyu Pan (Chicago)<br />
|Exponential mixing of geodesic flows for geometrically finite hyperbolic manifolds with cusps<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
== Spring Abstracts ==<br />
<br />
===Daniel Woodhouse===<br />
<br />
"Quasi-isometric Rigidity of graphs of free groups with cyclic edge groups"<br />
<br />
Let F be a finitely rank free group.<br />
Let w_1 and w_2 be suitable random/generic elements in F.<br />
Consider the HNN extension G = <F, t | t w_1 t^{-1} = w_2 >.<br />
It is known from existing results that G will be 1-ended and hyperbolic.<br />
We have shown that G is quasi-isometrically rigid.<br />
That is to say that if a f.g. group H is quasi-isometric to G, then G and H are virtually isomorphic.<br />
The full result is for finite graphs of groups with virtually free vertex groups and and two-ended edge groups, but the statement is more technical -- not all such groups are QI-rigid.<br />
The main argument involves applying a new proof of Leighton's graph covering theorem.<br />
This is joint work with Sam Shepherd.<br />
<br />
===John Mackay===<br />
<br />
"Poincaré profiles on graphs and groups, and a coarse geometric<br />
dichotomy"<br />
<br />
The separation profile of an infinite graph was introduced by<br />
Benjamini-Schramm-Timar. It is a function which measures how<br />
well-connected the graph is by how hard it is to cut finite subgraphs<br />
into small pieces. In earlier joint work with David Hume and Romain<br />
Tessera, we introduced Poincaré profiles, generalising this concept by<br />
using p-Poincaré inequalities to measure the connected-ness of<br />
subgraphs. I will discuss this family of invariants, their applications<br />
to coarse embedding problems, and recent work finding the profiles of<br />
all connected unimodular Lie groups, where a dichotomy is exhibited.<br />
Joint with Hume and Tessera.<br />
<br />
===Benjamin Branman===<br />
<br />
"Spaces of Pants Decompositions for Surfaces of Infinite Type"<br />
<br />
We study the pants graph of surfaces of infinite type. When S is a surface of infinite type, the usual definition of the graph of pants decompositions yields a graph with infinitely many connected-components. In the first part of our talk, we study this disconnected graph. In particular, we show that the extended mapping class group of S is isomorphic to a proper subgroup of of the pants graph, in contrast to the finite-type case. In the second part of the talk, motivated by the Metaconjecture of Ivanov, we seek to endow the pants graph with additional structure. To this end, we define a coarser topology on the pants graph than the topology inherited from the graph structure. We show that our new space is path-connected, and that its automorphism group is isomorphic to the extended mapping class group.<br />
<br />
<br />
===Uri Bader===<br />
"Totally geodesic submanifolds of hyperbolic manifolds and arithmeticity."<br />
<br />
Compact hyperbolic manifolds are very interesting geometric objects.<br />
Maybe surprisingly, they are also interesting from an algebraic point of view:<br />
They are completely determined by their fundamental groups (this is Mostow's Theorem),<br />
which could be seen as a subgroup of the integer valued invertible matrices in some dimension, GL_n(Z).<br />
When the fundamental group is the Z-points of some algebraic subgroup of GL_n we say that the manifold is arithmetic.<br />
A question arises: is there a simple geometric criterion for arithmeticity for hyperbolic manifolds?<br />
Such a criterion, relating arithmeticity to the existence of totally geodesic submanifolds, was conjectured by Reid and by McMullen.<br />
In a recent work with Fisher, Miller and Stover we proved this conjecture.<br />
Our proof is based on the theory of AREA, namely Algebraic Representation of Ergodic Actions, which I have developed with Alex Furman in recent years.<br />
In this talk I will try to survey the subject in a colloquial manner.<br />
<br />
<br />
===Omri Sarig===<br />
<br />
"(Dis)continuity of Lyapunov exponents for surface diffeomorphisms" (joint with J. Buzz and S. Crovisier)"<br />
<br />
Let f be an infinitely differentiable surface diffeomorphism. Suppose we are given a sequence of ergodic invariant measures m_n which converge weak star to an ergodic limit m. What do we need to know on m_n to guarantee that the Lyapunov exponents of m_n converge to the Lyapunov exponents of m?<br />
The main result is that if m has positive entropy, and the entropy of m_n converges to the entropy of m, then the Lyapunov exponents of m_n converge to the Lyapunov exponents of m.<br />
This is joint work with J. Buzzi and S. Crovisier.<br />
<br />
===Chris Leininger===<br />
<br />
"Billiards, symbolic coding, and cone metrics"<br />
<br />
Given a polygon in the Euclidean or hyperbolic plane a billiard trajectory in the polygon is the geodesic path of a particle in the polygon bouncing off the sides so that the angle of reflection is equal to the angle incidence. A billiard trajectory determines a symbolic coding via the sides of the polygon encountered. In this talk I will describe joint work with Erlandsson and Sadanand showing the extent to which the set of all coding sequences, the bounce spectrum, determines the shape of a hyperbolic polygon. We completely characterize those polygons which are billiard rigid (the generic case), meaning that they are determined up to isometry by their bounce spectrum. When rigidity fails for a polygon P, we parameterize the space of polygons having the same bounce spectrum at P. These results for billiards are a consequence of a rigidity/flexibility theorem for negatively curved hyperbolic cone metrics. In the talk I will explain the theorem about hyperbolic billiards, comparing/contrasting it with the Euclidean case (earlier work with Duchin, Erlandsson, and Sadanand). Then I will explain the relationship with hyperbolic cone metrics, state our rigidity/flexibility theorem for such metrics, and as time allows describe some of the ideas involved in the proofs.<br />
<br />
===Ethan Farber===<br />
<br />
"Constructing pseudo-Anosovs from expanding interval maps"<br />
<br />
The celebrated Nielsen-Thurston classification of surface homeomorphisms says that, up to isotopy, there are three types of homeomorphisms of a closed, connected surface: (1) finite order, (2) reducible, and (3) pseudo-Anosov. Of these three types, pseudo-Anosovs are the most intriguing to dynamicists, with connections to symbolic dynamics and flat geometry. In this talk we investigate a construction of generalized pseudo-Anosovs from interval maps, first introduced by de Carvalho. In particular, for a certain class of interval maps we give necessary and sufficient conditions for the construction to produce a true pseudo-Anosov, which may be recast in terms of the kneading data of the interval map. We also describe a bijection between such interval maps and the rationals in the open unit interval which captures the kneading data, and which increases monotonically in the entropy of the interval map.<br />
<br />
== Fall Abstracts ==<br />
<br />
===Andrew Zimmer===<br />
<br />
"An introduction to Anosov representations"<br />
<br />
Anosov representations are a special class of representations of finitely generated groups into Lie groups, which are defined using ideas from dynamics (namely, the theory of Anosov flows). In this talk, I will explain the definition (in a special case), give some examples, and describe some properties. I will focus on the case of representations into the general linear group where no background knowledge about Lie groups is required.<br />
<br />
<br />
===Chenxi Wu===<br />
<br />
"Asymptotic translation lengths on curve complexes and free factor complexes"<br />
<br />
The curve complex of a closed surface is a simplicial complex where the vertices are simple closed curves up to isotopy and faces are curves that are disjoint, and an analogy for the curve complex in the setting of Out(F_n) is the free factor complex. A pseudo-Anosov map induces a map from the curve graph to itself, and a basic question is to study the asymptotic translation length which is known to be a non-zero rational number. I will review some prior results on the study of this asymptotic translation length, as well as some of their analogies in the setting of free factor complexes. The latter part is an ongoing project with Hyrungryul Baik and Dongryul Kim. [https://wuchenxi.github.io/graph.pdf Slides]<br />
<br />
<br />
===Kathryn Lindsey===<br />
<br />
"Slices of Thurston's Master Teapot"<br />
<br />
Thurston's Master Teapot is the closure of the set of all points $(z,\lambda) \in \mathbb{C} \times \mathbb{R}$ such that $\lambda$ is the growth rate of a critically periodic unimodal self-map of an interval and $z$ is a Galois conjugate of $\lambda$. I will present a new characterization of which points are in this set. This characterization gives a way to think of each horizontal slice of the Master Teapot as an analogy of the Mandelbrot set for a "restricted iterated function system." An application of this characterization is that the Master Teapot is not invariant under the map $(z,\lambda) \mapsto (-z,\lambda)$. This presentation is based on joint work with Chenxi Wu.<br />
<br />
<br />
===Daniel Thompson===<br />
<br />
"Strong ergodic properties for equilibrium states in non-positive curvature"<br />
<br />
Equilibrium states for geodesic flows over compact rank 1 manifolds and sufficiently regular potential functions were studied by Burns, Climenhaga, Fisher and myself. We showed that if the higher rank set does not carry full topological pressure then the equilibrium state is unique. In this talk, I will describe some recent results on the dynamical properties of these unique equilibrium states. We show that these equilibrium states have the Kolmogorov property (joint with Ben Call), and that approximations of the equilibrium states by regular closed geodesics asymptotically satisfy a type of Central Limit Theorem (joint with Tianyu Wang).<br />
<br />
===Giulio Tiozzo===<br />
<br />
"Metrics on trees, laminations, and core entropy"<br />
<br />
The notion of core entropy, defined as the entropy of the restriction to the Hubbard tree,<br />
was formulated by W. Thurston to produce a combinatorial invariant which captures the topological complexity of polynomial Julia sets and varies in a rich fractal way over parameter space.<br />
<br />
Core entropy has been so far defined by looking at a Markov partition on the tree, or by a combinatorial construction involving infinite graphs. We will introduce a new interpretation of core entropy based on metrics on trees and, dually, on transverse measures on laminations<br />
defining the Julia set.<br />
<br />
On the one hand, this will define a new notion of transverse measures on quadratic laminations, completing the analogy with laminations on surfaces on the “other side” of Sullivan’s dictionary.<br />
Moreover, this is also related to a question of Milnor on a piecewise-linear analogue of Thurston iteration on Teichmueller space.<br />
<br />
===Clark Butler===<br />
<br />
"Unbounded uniformizations of Grkmov hyperbolic spaces"<br />
<br />
In a fundamental work Bonk, Heinonen, and Koskela established a conformal correspondence between Gromov hyperbolic spaces and bounded uniform spaces (satisfying certain additional hypotheses) that generalized the classical conformal correspondence between the Euclidean unit disk and the hyperbolic plane. We prove a similar conformal correspondence between Gromov hyperbolic spaces and unbounded uniform spaces that extends the correspondence between the Euclidean upper half plane and the hyperbolic plane. Our primary application of this uniformization procedure is to extend a number of recent results of Bjorn-Bjorn-Shanmugalingam for Besov spaces on compact metric spaces to Besov spaces on proper metric spaces. These results are derived through a Patterson-Sullivan-esque construction by realizing certain measures on these metric spaces as the boundary values of measures on uniformized Gromov hyperbolic spaces having these metric spaces as their boundaries.<br />
<br />
===Subhadip Dey===<br />
<br />
"Patterson-Sullivan measures for Anosov subgroups"<br />
<br />
Patterson-Sullivan measures were introduced by Patterson (1976) and Sullivan (1979) to study the Kleinian groups and their limit sets. In this talk, we discuss an extension of this classical construction for $P$-Anosov subgroups $\Gamma$ of $G$, where $G$ is a real semisimple Lie group and $P<G$ is a parabolic subgroup. In parallel with the theory for Kleinian groups, we will discuss how one can understand the Hausdorff dimension of the limit set of $\Gamma$ in terms of a certain critical exponent. This is a joint work with Michael Kapovich.<br />
<br />
===Nattalie Tamam===<br />
<br />
"Effective equidistribution of horospherical flows in infinite volume"<br />
<br />
Horospherical flows in homogeneous spaces have been studied intensively over the last several decades and have many surprising applications in various fields. Many basic results are under the assumption that the volume of the space is finite, which is crucial as many basic ergodic theorems fail in the setting of an infinite measure space.In the talk we will discuss the infinite volume setting, and specifically, when can we expect horospherical orbits to equidistribute. Our goal will be to provide an effective equidistribution result, with polynomial rate, for horospherical orbits in the frame bundle of certain infinite volume hyperbolic manifolds. This is a joint work with Jacqueline Warren.<br />
<br />
===Tariq Osman===<br />
<br />
"Limit Theorems for Quadratic Weyl Sums"<br />
<br />
Consider exponential sums of the form $S_N(x, \alpha) := \sum_{n = 1}^{N}e(1/2 n^2 x + n\alpha)$, known as quadratic Weyl sums. We will use homogeneous dynamics to establish a limiting distribution for $\frac{1}{\sqrt N} |S_N(x, \alpha)|$, when $\alpha$ is a fixed rational, and $x$ is chosen uniformly from the unit interval. Time permitting, we will study the tails of the limiting distribution to show that this is not the central limit theorem in disguise. (This is joint work with Francesco Cellarosi)<br />
<br />
===Wenyu Pan===<br />
<br />
"Exponential mixing of geodesic flows for geometrically finite hyperbolic manifolds with cusps"<br />
<br />
Let $\mathbb{H}^n$ be the hyperbolic $n$-space and $\Gamma$ be a geometrically finite discrete subgroup in $\operatorname{Isom}_{+}(\mathbb{H}^n)$ with parabolic elements. In the joint work with Jialun LI, we establish exponential mixing of the geodesic flow over the unit tangent bundle $T^1(\Gamma\backslash \mathbb{H}^n)$ with respect to the Bowen-Margulis-Sullivan measure. Our approach is to construct coding for the geodesic flow and then prove a Dolgopyat-type spectral estimate for the corresponding transfer operator. In the talk, I am planning to explain the construction of the coding. I will also discuss the application of obtaining a resonance-free region for the resolvent on $\Gamma\backslash \mathbb{H}^n$.</div>Cwu367https://wiki.math.wisc.edu/index.php?title=Dynamics_Seminar_2020-2021&diff=20965Dynamics Seminar 2020-20212021-03-09T14:16:10Z<p>Cwu367: </p>
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<br> <br />
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<br />
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== Spring 2021 ==<br />
<br />
{| cellpadding="8"<br />
!align="left" | date<br />
!align="left" | speaker<br />
!align="left" | title<br />
!align="left" | host(s)<br />
|-<br />
|February 3<br />
|Daniel Woodhouse (Oxford)<br />
|Quasi-isometric Rigidity of graphs of free groups with cyclic edge groups<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|February 10<br />
|John Mackay (Bristol)<br />
|Poincaré profiles on graphs and groups, and a coarse geometric<br />
dichotomy<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|February 17<br />
|Benjamin Branman (Wisconsin)<br />
|Spaces of Pants Decompositions for Surfaces of Infinite Type<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|February 24<br />
|Uri Bader (Weizmann Institute)<br />
|Totally geodesic submanifolds of hyperbolic manifolds and arithmeticity.<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|March 3<br />
|Omri Sarig (Weizmann Institute)<br />
|(Dis)continuity of Lyapunov exponents for surface diffeomorphisms (joint with J. Buzz and S. Crovisier)<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|March 10<br />
|Chris Leininger (Rice University)<br />
|Billiards, symbolic coding, and cone metrics<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|March 17<br />
|Ethan Farber (Boston College)<br />
|TBA<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|March 24<br />
|Jon Chaika (Utah)<br />
|TBA<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|March 31<br />
|Harrison Bray (George Mason)<br />
|TBA<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|April 7<br />
|Claire Burrin (ETH Zurich)<br />
|TBA<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|April 21<br />
|Kasra Rafi (Toronto)<br />
|TBA<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|April 28<br />
|Matt Bainbridge (Indiana)<br />
|TBA<br />
|}<br />
<br />
== Fall 2020 ==<br />
<br />
{| cellpadding="8"<br />
!align="left" | date<br />
!align="left" | speaker<br />
!align="left" | title<br />
!align="left" | host(s)<br />
|-<br />
|September 16<br />
|Andrew Zimmer (Wisconsin)<br />
|An introduction to Anosov representations I<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|September 23<br />
|Andrew Zimmer (Wisconsin)<br />
|An introduction to Anosov representations II<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|September 30<br />
|Chenxi Wu (Wisconsin)<br />
|Asymptoic translation lengths on curve complexes and free factor complexes<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|October 7<br />
|Kathryn Lindsey (Boston College)<br />
|Slices of Thurston's Master Teapot<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|October 14<br />
|Daniel Thompson (Ohio State)<br />
|Strong ergodic properties for equilibrium states in non-positive curvature<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|October 21<br />
|Giulio Tiozzo (Toronto)<br />
|Metrics on trees, laminations, and core entropy<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|October 28<br />
|No talk<br />
|No talk<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|November 4<br />
|Clark Butler (Princeton)<br />
|"Unbounded uniformizations of Grkmov hyperbolic spaces"<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|November 11<br />
|Subhadip Dey (Yale)<br />
|Patterson-Sullivan measures for Anosov subgroups<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|November 18<br />
|Nattalie Tamam (UCSD)<br />
|Effective equidistribution of horospherical flows in infinite volume<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|November 25<br />
|Tariq Osman (Queens)<br />
|Limit Theorems for Quadratic Weyl Sums<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|December 2<br />
|Wenyu Pan (Chicago)<br />
|Exponential mixing of geodesic flows for geometrically finite hyperbolic manifolds with cusps<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
== Spring Abstracts ==<br />
<br />
===Daniel Woodhouse===<br />
<br />
"Quasi-isometric Rigidity of graphs of free groups with cyclic edge groups"<br />
<br />
Let F be a finitely rank free group.<br />
Let w_1 and w_2 be suitable random/generic elements in F.<br />
Consider the HNN extension G = <F, t | t w_1 t^{-1} = w_2 >.<br />
It is known from existing results that G will be 1-ended and hyperbolic.<br />
We have shown that G is quasi-isometrically rigid.<br />
That is to say that if a f.g. group H is quasi-isometric to G, then G and H are virtually isomorphic.<br />
The full result is for finite graphs of groups with virtually free vertex groups and and two-ended edge groups, but the statement is more technical -- not all such groups are QI-rigid.<br />
The main argument involves applying a new proof of Leighton's graph covering theorem.<br />
This is joint work with Sam Shepherd.<br />
<br />
===John Mackay===<br />
<br />
"Poincaré profiles on graphs and groups, and a coarse geometric<br />
dichotomy"<br />
<br />
The separation profile of an infinite graph was introduced by<br />
Benjamini-Schramm-Timar. It is a function which measures how<br />
well-connected the graph is by how hard it is to cut finite subgraphs<br />
into small pieces. In earlier joint work with David Hume and Romain<br />
Tessera, we introduced Poincaré profiles, generalising this concept by<br />
using p-Poincaré inequalities to measure the connected-ness of<br />
subgraphs. I will discuss this family of invariants, their applications<br />
to coarse embedding problems, and recent work finding the profiles of<br />
all connected unimodular Lie groups, where a dichotomy is exhibited.<br />
Joint with Hume and Tessera.<br />
<br />
===Benjamin Branman===<br />
<br />
"Spaces of Pants Decompositions for Surfaces of Infinite Type"<br />
<br />
We study the pants graph of surfaces of infinite type. When S is a surface of infinite type, the usual definition of the graph of pants decompositions yields a graph with infinitely many connected-components. In the first part of our talk, we study this disconnected graph. In particular, we show that the extended mapping class group of S is isomorphic to a proper subgroup of of the pants graph, in contrast to the finite-type case. In the second part of the talk, motivated by the Metaconjecture of Ivanov, we seek to endow the pants graph with additional structure. To this end, we define a coarser topology on the pants graph than the topology inherited from the graph structure. We show that our new space is path-connected, and that its automorphism group is isomorphic to the extended mapping class group.<br />
<br />
<br />
===Uri Bader===<br />
"Totally geodesic submanifolds of hyperbolic manifolds and arithmeticity."<br />
<br />
Compact hyperbolic manifolds are very interesting geometric objects.<br />
Maybe surprisingly, they are also interesting from an algebraic point of view:<br />
They are completely determined by their fundamental groups (this is Mostow's Theorem),<br />
which could be seen as a subgroup of the integer valued invertible matrices in some dimension, GL_n(Z).<br />
When the fundamental group is the Z-points of some algebraic subgroup of GL_n we say that the manifold is arithmetic.<br />
A question arises: is there a simple geometric criterion for arithmeticity for hyperbolic manifolds?<br />
Such a criterion, relating arithmeticity to the existence of totally geodesic submanifolds, was conjectured by Reid and by McMullen.<br />
In a recent work with Fisher, Miller and Stover we proved this conjecture.<br />
Our proof is based on the theory of AREA, namely Algebraic Representation of Ergodic Actions, which I have developed with Alex Furman in recent years.<br />
In this talk I will try to survey the subject in a colloquial manner.<br />
<br />
<br />
===Omri Sarig===<br />
<br />
"(Dis)continuity of Lyapunov exponents for surface diffeomorphisms" (joint with J. Buzz and S. Crovisier)"<br />
<br />
Let f be an infinitely differentiable surface diffeomorphism. Suppose we are given a sequence of ergodic invariant measures m_n which converge weak star to an ergodic limit m. What do we need to know on m_n to guarantee that the Lyapunov exponents of m_n converge to the Lyapunov exponents of m?<br />
The main result is that if m has positive entropy, and the entropy of m_n converges to the entropy of m, then the Lyapunov exponents of m_n converge to the Lyapunov exponents of m.<br />
This is joint work with J. Buzzi and S. Crovisier.<br />
<br />
===Chris Leininger===<br />
<br />
"Billiards, symbolic coding, and cone metrics"<br />
<br />
Given a polygon in the Euclidean or hyperbolic plane a billiard trajectory in the polygon is the geodesic path of a particle in the polygon bouncing off the sides so that the angle of reflection is equal to the angle incidence. A billiard trajectory determines a symbolic coding via the sides of the polygon encountered. In this talk I will describe joint work with Erlandsson and Sadanand showing the extent to which the set of all coding sequences, the bounce spectrum, determines the shape of a hyperbolic polygon. We completely characterize those polygons which are billiard rigid (the generic case), meaning that they are determined up to isometry by their bounce spectrum. When rigidity fails for a polygon P, we parameterize the space of polygons having the same bounce spectrum at P. These results for billiards are a consequence of a rigidity/flexibility theorem for negatively curved hyperbolic cone metrics. In the talk I will explain the theorem about hyperbolic billiards, comparing/contrasting it with the Euclidean case (earlier work with Duchin, Erlandsson, and Sadanand). Then I will explain the relationship with hyperbolic cone metrics, state our rigidity/flexibility theorem for such metrics, and as time allows describe some of the ideas involved in the proofs.<br />
<br />
== Fall Abstracts ==<br />
<br />
===Andrew Zimmer===<br />
<br />
"An introduction to Anosov representations"<br />
<br />
Anosov representations are a special class of representations of finitely generated groups into Lie groups, which are defined using ideas from dynamics (namely, the theory of Anosov flows). In this talk, I will explain the definition (in a special case), give some examples, and describe some properties. I will focus on the case of representations into the general linear group where no background knowledge about Lie groups is required.<br />
<br />
<br />
===Chenxi Wu===<br />
<br />
"Asymptotic translation lengths on curve complexes and free factor complexes"<br />
<br />
The curve complex of a closed surface is a simplicial complex where the vertices are simple closed curves up to isotopy and faces are curves that are disjoint, and an analogy for the curve complex in the setting of Out(F_n) is the free factor complex. A pseudo-Anosov map induces a map from the curve graph to itself, and a basic question is to study the asymptotic translation length which is known to be a non-zero rational number. I will review some prior results on the study of this asymptotic translation length, as well as some of their analogies in the setting of free factor complexes. The latter part is an ongoing project with Hyrungryul Baik and Dongryul Kim. [https://wuchenxi.github.io/graph.pdf Slides]<br />
<br />
<br />
===Kathryn Lindsey===<br />
<br />
"Slices of Thurston's Master Teapot"<br />
<br />
Thurston's Master Teapot is the closure of the set of all points $(z,\lambda) \in \mathbb{C} \times \mathbb{R}$ such that $\lambda$ is the growth rate of a critically periodic unimodal self-map of an interval and $z$ is a Galois conjugate of $\lambda$. I will present a new characterization of which points are in this set. This characterization gives a way to think of each horizontal slice of the Master Teapot as an analogy of the Mandelbrot set for a "restricted iterated function system." An application of this characterization is that the Master Teapot is not invariant under the map $(z,\lambda) \mapsto (-z,\lambda)$. This presentation is based on joint work with Chenxi Wu.<br />
<br />
<br />
===Daniel Thompson===<br />
<br />
"Strong ergodic properties for equilibrium states in non-positive curvature"<br />
<br />
Equilibrium states for geodesic flows over compact rank 1 manifolds and sufficiently regular potential functions were studied by Burns, Climenhaga, Fisher and myself. We showed that if the higher rank set does not carry full topological pressure then the equilibrium state is unique. In this talk, I will describe some recent results on the dynamical properties of these unique equilibrium states. We show that these equilibrium states have the Kolmogorov property (joint with Ben Call), and that approximations of the equilibrium states by regular closed geodesics asymptotically satisfy a type of Central Limit Theorem (joint with Tianyu Wang).<br />
<br />
===Giulio Tiozzo===<br />
<br />
"Metrics on trees, laminations, and core entropy"<br />
<br />
The notion of core entropy, defined as the entropy of the restriction to the Hubbard tree,<br />
was formulated by W. Thurston to produce a combinatorial invariant which captures the topological complexity of polynomial Julia sets and varies in a rich fractal way over parameter space.<br />
<br />
Core entropy has been so far defined by looking at a Markov partition on the tree, or by a combinatorial construction involving infinite graphs. We will introduce a new interpretation of core entropy based on metrics on trees and, dually, on transverse measures on laminations<br />
defining the Julia set.<br />
<br />
On the one hand, this will define a new notion of transverse measures on quadratic laminations, completing the analogy with laminations on surfaces on the “other side” of Sullivan’s dictionary.<br />
Moreover, this is also related to a question of Milnor on a piecewise-linear analogue of Thurston iteration on Teichmueller space.<br />
<br />
===Clark Butler===<br />
<br />
"Unbounded uniformizations of Grkmov hyperbolic spaces"<br />
<br />
In a fundamental work Bonk, Heinonen, and Koskela established a conformal correspondence between Gromov hyperbolic spaces and bounded uniform spaces (satisfying certain additional hypotheses) that generalized the classical conformal correspondence between the Euclidean unit disk and the hyperbolic plane. We prove a similar conformal correspondence between Gromov hyperbolic spaces and unbounded uniform spaces that extends the correspondence between the Euclidean upper half plane and the hyperbolic plane. Our primary application of this uniformization procedure is to extend a number of recent results of Bjorn-Bjorn-Shanmugalingam for Besov spaces on compact metric spaces to Besov spaces on proper metric spaces. These results are derived through a Patterson-Sullivan-esque construction by realizing certain measures on these metric spaces as the boundary values of measures on uniformized Gromov hyperbolic spaces having these metric spaces as their boundaries.<br />
<br />
===Subhadip Dey===<br />
<br />
"Patterson-Sullivan measures for Anosov subgroups"<br />
<br />
Patterson-Sullivan measures were introduced by Patterson (1976) and Sullivan (1979) to study the Kleinian groups and their limit sets. In this talk, we discuss an extension of this classical construction for $P$-Anosov subgroups $\Gamma$ of $G$, where $G$ is a real semisimple Lie group and $P<G$ is a parabolic subgroup. In parallel with the theory for Kleinian groups, we will discuss how one can understand the Hausdorff dimension of the limit set of $\Gamma$ in terms of a certain critical exponent. This is a joint work with Michael Kapovich.<br />
<br />
===Nattalie Tamam===<br />
<br />
"Effective equidistribution of horospherical flows in infinite volume"<br />
<br />
Horospherical flows in homogeneous spaces have been studied intensively over the last several decades and have many surprising applications in various fields. Many basic results are under the assumption that the volume of the space is finite, which is crucial as many basic ergodic theorems fail in the setting of an infinite measure space.In the talk we will discuss the infinite volume setting, and specifically, when can we expect horospherical orbits to equidistribute. Our goal will be to provide an effective equidistribution result, with polynomial rate, for horospherical orbits in the frame bundle of certain infinite volume hyperbolic manifolds. This is a joint work with Jacqueline Warren.<br />
<br />
===Tariq Osman===<br />
<br />
"Limit Theorems for Quadratic Weyl Sums"<br />
<br />
Consider exponential sums of the form $S_N(x, \alpha) := \sum_{n = 1}^{N}e(1/2 n^2 x + n\alpha)$, known as quadratic Weyl sums. We will use homogeneous dynamics to establish a limiting distribution for $\frac{1}{\sqrt N} |S_N(x, \alpha)|$, when $\alpha$ is a fixed rational, and $x$ is chosen uniformly from the unit interval. Time permitting, we will study the tails of the limiting distribution to show that this is not the central limit theorem in disguise. (This is joint work with Francesco Cellarosi)<br />
<br />
===Wenyu Pan===<br />
<br />
"Exponential mixing of geodesic flows for geometrically finite hyperbolic manifolds with cusps"<br />
<br />
Let $\mathbb{H}^n$ be the hyperbolic $n$-space and $\Gamma$ be a geometrically finite discrete subgroup in $\operatorname{Isom}_{+}(\mathbb{H}^n)$ with parabolic elements. In the joint work with Jialun LI, we establish exponential mixing of the geodesic flow over the unit tangent bundle $T^1(\Gamma\backslash \mathbb{H}^n)$ with respect to the Bowen-Margulis-Sullivan measure. Our approach is to construct coding for the geodesic flow and then prove a Dolgopyat-type spectral estimate for the corresponding transfer operator. In the talk, I am planning to explain the construction of the coding. I will also discuss the application of obtaining a resonance-free region for the resolvent on $\Gamma\backslash \mathbb{H}^n$.</div>Cwu367https://wiki.math.wisc.edu/index.php?title=Dynamics_Seminar_2020-2021&diff=20888Dynamics Seminar 2020-20212021-02-26T02:09:25Z<p>Cwu367: /* Spring 2021 */</p>
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== Spring 2021 ==<br />
<br />
{| cellpadding="8"<br />
!align="left" | date<br />
!align="left" | speaker<br />
!align="left" | title<br />
!align="left" | host(s)<br />
|-<br />
|February 3<br />
|Daniel Woodhouse (Oxford)<br />
|Quasi-isometric Rigidity of graphs of free groups with cyclic edge groups<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|February 10<br />
|John Mackay (Bristol)<br />
|Poincaré profiles on graphs and groups, and a coarse geometric<br />
dichotomy<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|February 17<br />
|Benjamin Branman (Wisconsin)<br />
|Spaces of Pants Decompositions for Surfaces of Infinite Type<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|February 24<br />
|Uri Bader (Weizmann Institute)<br />
|Totally geodesic submanifolds of hyperbolic manifolds and arithmeticity.<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|March 3<br />
|Omri Sarig (Weizmann Institute)<br />
|(Dis)continuity of Lyapunov exponents for surface diffeomorphisms (joint with J. Buzz and S. Crovisier)<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|March 10<br />
|Chris Leininger (Rice University)<br />
|TBA<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|March 17<br />
|Ethan Farber (Boston College)<br />
|TBA<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|March 24<br />
|Jon Chaika (Utah)<br />
|TBA<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|March 31<br />
|Harrison Bray (George Mason)<br />
|TBA<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|April 7<br />
|Claire Burrin (ETH Zurich)<br />
|TBA<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|April 21<br />
|Kasra Rafi (Toronto)<br />
|TBA<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|April 28<br />
|Matt Bainbridge (Indiana)<br />
|TBA<br />
|}<br />
<br />
== Fall 2020 ==<br />
<br />
{| cellpadding="8"<br />
!align="left" | date<br />
!align="left" | speaker<br />
!align="left" | title<br />
!align="left" | host(s)<br />
|-<br />
|September 16<br />
|Andrew Zimmer (Wisconsin)<br />
|An introduction to Anosov representations I<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|September 23<br />
|Andrew Zimmer (Wisconsin)<br />
|An introduction to Anosov representations II<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|September 30<br />
|Chenxi Wu (Wisconsin)<br />
|Asymptoic translation lengths on curve complexes and free factor complexes<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|October 7<br />
|Kathryn Lindsey (Boston College)<br />
|Slices of Thurston's Master Teapot<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|October 14<br />
|Daniel Thompson (Ohio State)<br />
|Strong ergodic properties for equilibrium states in non-positive curvature<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|October 21<br />
|Giulio Tiozzo (Toronto)<br />
|Metrics on trees, laminations, and core entropy<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|October 28<br />
|No talk<br />
|No talk<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|November 4<br />
|Clark Butler (Princeton)<br />
|"Unbounded uniformizations of Grkmov hyperbolic spaces"<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|November 11<br />
|Subhadip Dey (Yale)<br />
|Patterson-Sullivan measures for Anosov subgroups<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|November 18<br />
|Nattalie Tamam (UCSD)<br />
|Effective equidistribution of horospherical flows in infinite volume<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|November 25<br />
|Tariq Osman (Queens)<br />
|Limit Theorems for Quadratic Weyl Sums<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|December 2<br />
|Wenyu Pan (Chicago)<br />
|Exponential mixing of geodesic flows for geometrically finite hyperbolic manifolds with cusps<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
== Spring Abstracts ==<br />
<br />
===Daniel Woodhouse===<br />
<br />
"Quasi-isometric Rigidity of graphs of free groups with cyclic edge groups"<br />
<br />
Let F be a finitely rank free group.<br />
Let w_1 and w_2 be suitable random/generic elements in F.<br />
Consider the HNN extension G = <F, t | t w_1 t^{-1} = w_2 >.<br />
It is known from existing results that G will be 1-ended and hyperbolic.<br />
We have shown that G is quasi-isometrically rigid.<br />
That is to say that if a f.g. group H is quasi-isometric to G, then G and H are virtually isomorphic.<br />
The full result is for finite graphs of groups with virtually free vertex groups and and two-ended edge groups, but the statement is more technical -- not all such groups are QI-rigid.<br />
The main argument involves applying a new proof of Leighton's graph covering theorem.<br />
This is joint work with Sam Shepherd.<br />
<br />
===John Mackay===<br />
<br />
"Poincaré profiles on graphs and groups, and a coarse geometric<br />
dichotomy"<br />
<br />
The separation profile of an infinite graph was introduced by<br />
Benjamini-Schramm-Timar. It is a function which measures how<br />
well-connected the graph is by how hard it is to cut finite subgraphs<br />
into small pieces. In earlier joint work with David Hume and Romain<br />
Tessera, we introduced Poincaré profiles, generalising this concept by<br />
using p-Poincaré inequalities to measure the connected-ness of<br />
subgraphs. I will discuss this family of invariants, their applications<br />
to coarse embedding problems, and recent work finding the profiles of<br />
all connected unimodular Lie groups, where a dichotomy is exhibited.<br />
Joint with Hume and Tessera.<br />
<br />
===Benjamin Branman===<br />
<br />
"Spaces of Pants Decompositions for Surfaces of Infinite Type"<br />
<br />
We study the pants graph of surfaces of infinite type. When S is a surface of infinite type, the usual definition of the graph of pants decompositions yields a graph with infinitely many connected-components. In the first part of our talk, we study this disconnected graph. In particular, we show that the extended mapping class group of S is isomorphic to a proper subgroup of of the pants graph, in contrast to the finite-type case. In the second part of the talk, motivated by the Metaconjecture of Ivanov, we seek to endow the pants graph with additional structure. To this end, we define a coarser topology on the pants graph than the topology inherited from the graph structure. We show that our new space is path-connected, and that its automorphism group is isomorphic to the extended mapping class group.<br />
<br />
<br />
===Uri Bader===<br />
"Totally geodesic submanifolds of hyperbolic manifolds and arithmeticity."<br />
<br />
Compact hyperbolic manifolds are very interesting geometric objects.<br />
Maybe surprisingly, they are also interesting from an algebraic point of view:<br />
They are completely determined by their fundamental groups (this is Mostow's Theorem),<br />
which could be seen as a subgroup of the integer valued invertible matrices in some dimension, GL_n(Z).<br />
When the fundamental group is the Z-points of some algebraic subgroup of GL_n we say that the manifold is arithmetic.<br />
A question arises: is there a simple geometric criterion for arithmeticity for hyperbolic manifolds?<br />
Such a criterion, relating arithmeticity to the existence of totally geodesic submanifolds, was conjectured by Reid and by McMullen.<br />
In a recent work with Fisher, Miller and Stover we proved this conjecture.<br />
Our proof is based on the theory of AREA, namely Algebraic Representation of Ergodic Actions, which I have developed with Alex Furman in recent years.<br />
In this talk I will try to survey the subject in a colloquial manner.<br />
<br />
<br />
===Omri Sarig===<br />
<br />
"(Dis)continuity of Lyapunov exponents for surface diffeomorphisms" (joint with J. Buzz and S. Crovisier)"<br />
<br />
Let f be an infinitely differentiable surface diffeomorphism. Suppose we are given a sequence of ergodic invariant measures m_n which converge weak star to an ergodic limit m. What do we need to know on m_n to guarantee that the Lyapunov exponents of m_n converge to the Lyapunov exponents of m?<br />
The main result is that if m has positive entropy, and the entropy of m_n converges to the entropy of m, then the Lyapunov exponents of m_n converge to the Lyapunov exponents of m.<br />
This is joint work with J. Buzzi and S. Crovisier.<br />
<br />
== Fall Abstracts ==<br />
<br />
===Andrew Zimmer===<br />
<br />
"An introduction to Anosov representations"<br />
<br />
Anosov representations are a special class of representations of finitely generated groups into Lie groups, which are defined using ideas from dynamics (namely, the theory of Anosov flows). In this talk, I will explain the definition (in a special case), give some examples, and describe some properties. I will focus on the case of representations into the general linear group where no background knowledge about Lie groups is required.<br />
<br />
<br />
===Chenxi Wu===<br />
<br />
"Asymptotic translation lengths on curve complexes and free factor complexes"<br />
<br />
The curve complex of a closed surface is a simplicial complex where the vertices are simple closed curves up to isotopy and faces are curves that are disjoint, and an analogy for the curve complex in the setting of Out(F_n) is the free factor complex. A pseudo-Anosov map induces a map from the curve graph to itself, and a basic question is to study the asymptotic translation length which is known to be a non-zero rational number. I will review some prior results on the study of this asymptotic translation length, as well as some of their analogies in the setting of free factor complexes. The latter part is an ongoing project with Hyrungryul Baik and Dongryul Kim. [https://wuchenxi.github.io/graph.pdf Slides]<br />
<br />
<br />
===Kathryn Lindsey===<br />
<br />
"Slices of Thurston's Master Teapot"<br />
<br />
Thurston's Master Teapot is the closure of the set of all points $(z,\lambda) \in \mathbb{C} \times \mathbb{R}$ such that $\lambda$ is the growth rate of a critically periodic unimodal self-map of an interval and $z$ is a Galois conjugate of $\lambda$. I will present a new characterization of which points are in this set. This characterization gives a way to think of each horizontal slice of the Master Teapot as an analogy of the Mandelbrot set for a "restricted iterated function system." An application of this characterization is that the Master Teapot is not invariant under the map $(z,\lambda) \mapsto (-z,\lambda)$. This presentation is based on joint work with Chenxi Wu.<br />
<br />
<br />
===Daniel Thompson===<br />
<br />
"Strong ergodic properties for equilibrium states in non-positive curvature"<br />
<br />
Equilibrium states for geodesic flows over compact rank 1 manifolds and sufficiently regular potential functions were studied by Burns, Climenhaga, Fisher and myself. We showed that if the higher rank set does not carry full topological pressure then the equilibrium state is unique. In this talk, I will describe some recent results on the dynamical properties of these unique equilibrium states. We show that these equilibrium states have the Kolmogorov property (joint with Ben Call), and that approximations of the equilibrium states by regular closed geodesics asymptotically satisfy a type of Central Limit Theorem (joint with Tianyu Wang).<br />
<br />
===Giulio Tiozzo===<br />
<br />
"Metrics on trees, laminations, and core entropy"<br />
<br />
The notion of core entropy, defined as the entropy of the restriction to the Hubbard tree,<br />
was formulated by W. Thurston to produce a combinatorial invariant which captures the topological complexity of polynomial Julia sets and varies in a rich fractal way over parameter space.<br />
<br />
Core entropy has been so far defined by looking at a Markov partition on the tree, or by a combinatorial construction involving infinite graphs. We will introduce a new interpretation of core entropy based on metrics on trees and, dually, on transverse measures on laminations<br />
defining the Julia set.<br />
<br />
On the one hand, this will define a new notion of transverse measures on quadratic laminations, completing the analogy with laminations on surfaces on the “other side” of Sullivan’s dictionary.<br />
Moreover, this is also related to a question of Milnor on a piecewise-linear analogue of Thurston iteration on Teichmueller space.<br />
<br />
===Clark Butler===<br />
<br />
"Unbounded uniformizations of Grkmov hyperbolic spaces"<br />
<br />
In a fundamental work Bonk, Heinonen, and Koskela established a conformal correspondence between Gromov hyperbolic spaces and bounded uniform spaces (satisfying certain additional hypotheses) that generalized the classical conformal correspondence between the Euclidean unit disk and the hyperbolic plane. We prove a similar conformal correspondence between Gromov hyperbolic spaces and unbounded uniform spaces that extends the correspondence between the Euclidean upper half plane and the hyperbolic plane. Our primary application of this uniformization procedure is to extend a number of recent results of Bjorn-Bjorn-Shanmugalingam for Besov spaces on compact metric spaces to Besov spaces on proper metric spaces. These results are derived through a Patterson-Sullivan-esque construction by realizing certain measures on these metric spaces as the boundary values of measures on uniformized Gromov hyperbolic spaces having these metric spaces as their boundaries.<br />
<br />
===Subhadip Dey===<br />
<br />
"Patterson-Sullivan measures for Anosov subgroups"<br />
<br />
Patterson-Sullivan measures were introduced by Patterson (1976) and Sullivan (1979) to study the Kleinian groups and their limit sets. In this talk, we discuss an extension of this classical construction for $P$-Anosov subgroups $\Gamma$ of $G$, where $G$ is a real semisimple Lie group and $P<G$ is a parabolic subgroup. In parallel with the theory for Kleinian groups, we will discuss how one can understand the Hausdorff dimension of the limit set of $\Gamma$ in terms of a certain critical exponent. This is a joint work with Michael Kapovich.<br />
<br />
===Nattalie Tamam===<br />
<br />
"Effective equidistribution of horospherical flows in infinite volume"<br />
<br />
Horospherical flows in homogeneous spaces have been studied intensively over the last several decades and have many surprising applications in various fields. Many basic results are under the assumption that the volume of the space is finite, which is crucial as many basic ergodic theorems fail in the setting of an infinite measure space.In the talk we will discuss the infinite volume setting, and specifically, when can we expect horospherical orbits to equidistribute. Our goal will be to provide an effective equidistribution result, with polynomial rate, for horospherical orbits in the frame bundle of certain infinite volume hyperbolic manifolds. This is a joint work with Jacqueline Warren.<br />
<br />
===Tariq Osman===<br />
<br />
"Limit Theorems for Quadratic Weyl Sums"<br />
<br />
Consider exponential sums of the form $S_N(x, \alpha) := \sum_{n = 1}^{N}e(1/2 n^2 x + n\alpha)$, known as quadratic Weyl sums. We will use homogeneous dynamics to establish a limiting distribution for $\frac{1}{\sqrt N} |S_N(x, \alpha)|$, when $\alpha$ is a fixed rational, and $x$ is chosen uniformly from the unit interval. Time permitting, we will study the tails of the limiting distribution to show that this is not the central limit theorem in disguise. (This is joint work with Francesco Cellarosi)<br />
<br />
===Wenyu Pan===<br />
<br />
"Exponential mixing of geodesic flows for geometrically finite hyperbolic manifolds with cusps"<br />
<br />
Let $\mathbb{H}^n$ be the hyperbolic $n$-space and $\Gamma$ be a geometrically finite discrete subgroup in $\operatorname{Isom}_{+}(\mathbb{H}^n)$ with parabolic elements. In the joint work with Jialun LI, we establish exponential mixing of the geodesic flow over the unit tangent bundle $T^1(\Gamma\backslash \mathbb{H}^n)$ with respect to the Bowen-Margulis-Sullivan measure. Our approach is to construct coding for the geodesic flow and then prove a Dolgopyat-type spectral estimate for the corresponding transfer operator. In the talk, I am planning to explain the construction of the coding. I will also discuss the application of obtaining a resonance-free region for the resolvent on $\Gamma\backslash \mathbb{H}^n$.</div>Cwu367https://wiki.math.wisc.edu/index.php?title=Dynamics_Seminar_2020-2021&diff=20881Dynamics Seminar 2020-20212021-02-24T21:50:28Z<p>Cwu367: /* Spring 2021 */</p>
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== Spring 2021 ==<br />
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{| cellpadding="8"<br />
!align="left" | date<br />
!align="left" | speaker<br />
!align="left" | title<br />
!align="left" | host(s)<br />
|-<br />
|February 3<br />
|Daniel Woodhouse (Oxford)<br />
|Quasi-isometric Rigidity of graphs of free groups with cyclic edge groups<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|February 10<br />
|John Mackay (Bristol)<br />
|Poincaré profiles on graphs and groups, and a coarse geometric<br />
dichotomy<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|February 17<br />
|Benjamin Branman (Wisconsin)<br />
|Spaces of Pants Decompositions for Surfaces of Infinite Type<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|February 24<br />
|Uri Bader (Weizmann Institute)<br />
|Totally geodesic submanifolds of hyperbolic manifolds and arithmeticity.<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|March 3<br />
|Omri Sarig (Weizmann Institute)<br />
|(Dis)continuity of Lyapunov exponents for surface diffeomorphisms (joint with J. Buzz and S. Crovisier)<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|March 10<br />
|Chris Leininger (Rice University)<br />
|TBA<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|March 17<br />
|Ethan Farber (Boston College)<br />
|TBA<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|March 24<br />
|Jon Chaika (Utah)<br />
|TBA<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|March 31<br />
|Harrison Bray (George Mason)<br />
|TBA<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|April 7<br />
|Claire Burrin (ETH Zurich)<br />
|TBA<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|April 28<br />
|Matt Bainbridge (Indiana)<br />
|TBA<br />
|}<br />
<br />
== Fall 2020 ==<br />
<br />
{| cellpadding="8"<br />
!align="left" | date<br />
!align="left" | speaker<br />
!align="left" | title<br />
!align="left" | host(s)<br />
|-<br />
|September 16<br />
|Andrew Zimmer (Wisconsin)<br />
|An introduction to Anosov representations I<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|September 23<br />
|Andrew Zimmer (Wisconsin)<br />
|An introduction to Anosov representations II<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|September 30<br />
|Chenxi Wu (Wisconsin)<br />
|Asymptoic translation lengths on curve complexes and free factor complexes<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|October 7<br />
|Kathryn Lindsey (Boston College)<br />
|Slices of Thurston's Master Teapot<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|October 14<br />
|Daniel Thompson (Ohio State)<br />
|Strong ergodic properties for equilibrium states in non-positive curvature<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|October 21<br />
|Giulio Tiozzo (Toronto)<br />
|Metrics on trees, laminations, and core entropy<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|October 28<br />
|No talk<br />
|No talk<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|November 4<br />
|Clark Butler (Princeton)<br />
|"Unbounded uniformizations of Grkmov hyperbolic spaces"<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|November 11<br />
|Subhadip Dey (Yale)<br />
|Patterson-Sullivan measures for Anosov subgroups<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|November 18<br />
|Nattalie Tamam (UCSD)<br />
|Effective equidistribution of horospherical flows in infinite volume<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|November 25<br />
|Tariq Osman (Queens)<br />
|Limit Theorems for Quadratic Weyl Sums<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|December 2<br />
|Wenyu Pan (Chicago)<br />
|Exponential mixing of geodesic flows for geometrically finite hyperbolic manifolds with cusps<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
== Spring Abstracts ==<br />
<br />
===Daniel Woodhouse===<br />
<br />
"Quasi-isometric Rigidity of graphs of free groups with cyclic edge groups"<br />
<br />
Let F be a finitely rank free group.<br />
Let w_1 and w_2 be suitable random/generic elements in F.<br />
Consider the HNN extension G = <F, t | t w_1 t^{-1} = w_2 >.<br />
It is known from existing results that G will be 1-ended and hyperbolic.<br />
We have shown that G is quasi-isometrically rigid.<br />
That is to say that if a f.g. group H is quasi-isometric to G, then G and H are virtually isomorphic.<br />
The full result is for finite graphs of groups with virtually free vertex groups and and two-ended edge groups, but the statement is more technical -- not all such groups are QI-rigid.<br />
The main argument involves applying a new proof of Leighton's graph covering theorem.<br />
This is joint work with Sam Shepherd.<br />
<br />
===John Mackay===<br />
<br />
"Poincaré profiles on graphs and groups, and a coarse geometric<br />
dichotomy"<br />
<br />
The separation profile of an infinite graph was introduced by<br />
Benjamini-Schramm-Timar. It is a function which measures how<br />
well-connected the graph is by how hard it is to cut finite subgraphs<br />
into small pieces. In earlier joint work with David Hume and Romain<br />
Tessera, we introduced Poincaré profiles, generalising this concept by<br />
using p-Poincaré inequalities to measure the connected-ness of<br />
subgraphs. I will discuss this family of invariants, their applications<br />
to coarse embedding problems, and recent work finding the profiles of<br />
all connected unimodular Lie groups, where a dichotomy is exhibited.<br />
Joint with Hume and Tessera.<br />
<br />
===Benjamin Branman===<br />
<br />
"Spaces of Pants Decompositions for Surfaces of Infinite Type"<br />
<br />
We study the pants graph of surfaces of infinite type. When S is a surface of infinite type, the usual definition of the graph of pants decompositions yields a graph with infinitely many connected-components. In the first part of our talk, we study this disconnected graph. In particular, we show that the extended mapping class group of S is isomorphic to a proper subgroup of of the pants graph, in contrast to the finite-type case. In the second part of the talk, motivated by the Metaconjecture of Ivanov, we seek to endow the pants graph with additional structure. To this end, we define a coarser topology on the pants graph than the topology inherited from the graph structure. We show that our new space is path-connected, and that its automorphism group is isomorphic to the extended mapping class group.<br />
<br />
<br />
===Uri Bader===<br />
"Totally geodesic submanifolds of hyperbolic manifolds and arithmeticity."<br />
<br />
Compact hyperbolic manifolds are very interesting geometric objects.<br />
Maybe surprisingly, they are also interesting from an algebraic point of view:<br />
They are completely determined by their fundamental groups (this is Mostow's Theorem),<br />
which could be seen as a subgroup of the integer valued invertible matrices in some dimension, GL_n(Z).<br />
When the fundamental group is the Z-points of some algebraic subgroup of GL_n we say that the manifold is arithmetic.<br />
A question arises: is there a simple geometric criterion for arithmeticity for hyperbolic manifolds?<br />
Such a criterion, relating arithmeticity to the existence of totally geodesic submanifolds, was conjectured by Reid and by McMullen.<br />
In a recent work with Fisher, Miller and Stover we proved this conjecture.<br />
Our proof is based on the theory of AREA, namely Algebraic Representation of Ergodic Actions, which I have developed with Alex Furman in recent years.<br />
In this talk I will try to survey the subject in a colloquial manner.<br />
<br />
<br />
===Omri Sarig===<br />
<br />
"(Dis)continuity of Lyapunov exponents for surface diffeomorphisms" (joint with J. Buzz and S. Crovisier)"<br />
<br />
Let f be an infinitely differentiable surface diffeomorphism. Suppose we are given a sequence of ergodic invariant measures m_n which converge weak star to an ergodic limit m. What do we need to know on m_n to guarantee that the Lyapunov exponents of m_n converge to the Lyapunov exponents of m?<br />
The main result is that if m has positive entropy, and the entropy of m_n converges to the entropy of m, then the Lyapunov exponents of m_n converge to the Lyapunov exponents of m.<br />
This is joint work with J. Buzzi and S. Crovisier.<br />
<br />
== Fall Abstracts ==<br />
<br />
===Andrew Zimmer===<br />
<br />
"An introduction to Anosov representations"<br />
<br />
Anosov representations are a special class of representations of finitely generated groups into Lie groups, which are defined using ideas from dynamics (namely, the theory of Anosov flows). In this talk, I will explain the definition (in a special case), give some examples, and describe some properties. I will focus on the case of representations into the general linear group where no background knowledge about Lie groups is required.<br />
<br />
<br />
===Chenxi Wu===<br />
<br />
"Asymptotic translation lengths on curve complexes and free factor complexes"<br />
<br />
The curve complex of a closed surface is a simplicial complex where the vertices are simple closed curves up to isotopy and faces are curves that are disjoint, and an analogy for the curve complex in the setting of Out(F_n) is the free factor complex. A pseudo-Anosov map induces a map from the curve graph to itself, and a basic question is to study the asymptotic translation length which is known to be a non-zero rational number. I will review some prior results on the study of this asymptotic translation length, as well as some of their analogies in the setting of free factor complexes. The latter part is an ongoing project with Hyrungryul Baik and Dongryul Kim. [https://wuchenxi.github.io/graph.pdf Slides]<br />
<br />
<br />
===Kathryn Lindsey===<br />
<br />
"Slices of Thurston's Master Teapot"<br />
<br />
Thurston's Master Teapot is the closure of the set of all points $(z,\lambda) \in \mathbb{C} \times \mathbb{R}$ such that $\lambda$ is the growth rate of a critically periodic unimodal self-map of an interval and $z$ is a Galois conjugate of $\lambda$. I will present a new characterization of which points are in this set. This characterization gives a way to think of each horizontal slice of the Master Teapot as an analogy of the Mandelbrot set for a "restricted iterated function system." An application of this characterization is that the Master Teapot is not invariant under the map $(z,\lambda) \mapsto (-z,\lambda)$. This presentation is based on joint work with Chenxi Wu.<br />
<br />
<br />
===Daniel Thompson===<br />
<br />
"Strong ergodic properties for equilibrium states in non-positive curvature"<br />
<br />
Equilibrium states for geodesic flows over compact rank 1 manifolds and sufficiently regular potential functions were studied by Burns, Climenhaga, Fisher and myself. We showed that if the higher rank set does not carry full topological pressure then the equilibrium state is unique. In this talk, I will describe some recent results on the dynamical properties of these unique equilibrium states. We show that these equilibrium states have the Kolmogorov property (joint with Ben Call), and that approximations of the equilibrium states by regular closed geodesics asymptotically satisfy a type of Central Limit Theorem (joint with Tianyu Wang).<br />
<br />
===Giulio Tiozzo===<br />
<br />
"Metrics on trees, laminations, and core entropy"<br />
<br />
The notion of core entropy, defined as the entropy of the restriction to the Hubbard tree,<br />
was formulated by W. Thurston to produce a combinatorial invariant which captures the topological complexity of polynomial Julia sets and varies in a rich fractal way over parameter space.<br />
<br />
Core entropy has been so far defined by looking at a Markov partition on the tree, or by a combinatorial construction involving infinite graphs. We will introduce a new interpretation of core entropy based on metrics on trees and, dually, on transverse measures on laminations<br />
defining the Julia set.<br />
<br />
On the one hand, this will define a new notion of transverse measures on quadratic laminations, completing the analogy with laminations on surfaces on the “other side” of Sullivan’s dictionary.<br />
Moreover, this is also related to a question of Milnor on a piecewise-linear analogue of Thurston iteration on Teichmueller space.<br />
<br />
===Clark Butler===<br />
<br />
"Unbounded uniformizations of Grkmov hyperbolic spaces"<br />
<br />
In a fundamental work Bonk, Heinonen, and Koskela established a conformal correspondence between Gromov hyperbolic spaces and bounded uniform spaces (satisfying certain additional hypotheses) that generalized the classical conformal correspondence between the Euclidean unit disk and the hyperbolic plane. We prove a similar conformal correspondence between Gromov hyperbolic spaces and unbounded uniform spaces that extends the correspondence between the Euclidean upper half plane and the hyperbolic plane. Our primary application of this uniformization procedure is to extend a number of recent results of Bjorn-Bjorn-Shanmugalingam for Besov spaces on compact metric spaces to Besov spaces on proper metric spaces. These results are derived through a Patterson-Sullivan-esque construction by realizing certain measures on these metric spaces as the boundary values of measures on uniformized Gromov hyperbolic spaces having these metric spaces as their boundaries.<br />
<br />
===Subhadip Dey===<br />
<br />
"Patterson-Sullivan measures for Anosov subgroups"<br />
<br />
Patterson-Sullivan measures were introduced by Patterson (1976) and Sullivan (1979) to study the Kleinian groups and their limit sets. In this talk, we discuss an extension of this classical construction for $P$-Anosov subgroups $\Gamma$ of $G$, where $G$ is a real semisimple Lie group and $P<G$ is a parabolic subgroup. In parallel with the theory for Kleinian groups, we will discuss how one can understand the Hausdorff dimension of the limit set of $\Gamma$ in terms of a certain critical exponent. This is a joint work with Michael Kapovich.<br />
<br />
===Nattalie Tamam===<br />
<br />
"Effective equidistribution of horospherical flows in infinite volume"<br />
<br />
Horospherical flows in homogeneous spaces have been studied intensively over the last several decades and have many surprising applications in various fields. Many basic results are under the assumption that the volume of the space is finite, which is crucial as many basic ergodic theorems fail in the setting of an infinite measure space.In the talk we will discuss the infinite volume setting, and specifically, when can we expect horospherical orbits to equidistribute. Our goal will be to provide an effective equidistribution result, with polynomial rate, for horospherical orbits in the frame bundle of certain infinite volume hyperbolic manifolds. This is a joint work with Jacqueline Warren.<br />
<br />
===Tariq Osman===<br />
<br />
"Limit Theorems for Quadratic Weyl Sums"<br />
<br />
Consider exponential sums of the form $S_N(x, \alpha) := \sum_{n = 1}^{N}e(1/2 n^2 x + n\alpha)$, known as quadratic Weyl sums. We will use homogeneous dynamics to establish a limiting distribution for $\frac{1}{\sqrt N} |S_N(x, \alpha)|$, when $\alpha$ is a fixed rational, and $x$ is chosen uniformly from the unit interval. Time permitting, we will study the tails of the limiting distribution to show that this is not the central limit theorem in disguise. (This is joint work with Francesco Cellarosi)<br />
<br />
===Wenyu Pan===<br />
<br />
"Exponential mixing of geodesic flows for geometrically finite hyperbolic manifolds with cusps"<br />
<br />
Let $\mathbb{H}^n$ be the hyperbolic $n$-space and $\Gamma$ be a geometrically finite discrete subgroup in $\operatorname{Isom}_{+}(\mathbb{H}^n)$ with parabolic elements. In the joint work with Jialun LI, we establish exponential mixing of the geodesic flow over the unit tangent bundle $T^1(\Gamma\backslash \mathbb{H}^n)$ with respect to the Bowen-Margulis-Sullivan measure. Our approach is to construct coding for the geodesic flow and then prove a Dolgopyat-type spectral estimate for the corresponding transfer operator. In the talk, I am planning to explain the construction of the coding. I will also discuss the application of obtaining a resonance-free region for the resolvent on $\Gamma\backslash \mathbb{H}^n$.</div>Cwu367https://wiki.math.wisc.edu/index.php?title=Dynamics_Seminar_2020-2021&diff=20796Dynamics Seminar 2020-20212021-02-08T17:04:58Z<p>Cwu367: /* Spring 2021 */</p>
<hr />
<div>The [[Dynamics Seminar]] meets virtually on '''Wednesdays''' from '''2:30pm - 3:20pm'''.<br />
<br> <br />
For more information, contact Chenxi Wu.<br />
To sign up for the mailing list send an email from your wisc.edu address to dynamics+join@g-groups.wisc.edu<br />
<br />
The zoom login info is as follows:<br />
<br />
Join Zoom Meeting<br />
https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/93164776780?pwd=anE2Y3RhWk1VR0lDa0hnMzhPTTJEUT09<br />
<br />
Meeting ID: 931 6477 6780<br />
Passcode: 819612<br />
<br />
<br />
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<br />
== Spring 2021 ==<br />
<br />
{| cellpadding="8"<br />
!align="left" | date<br />
!align="left" | speaker<br />
!align="left" | title<br />
!align="left" | host(s)<br />
|-<br />
|February 3<br />
|Daniel Woodhouse (Oxford)<br />
|Quasi-isometric Rigidity of graphs of free groups with cyclic edge groups<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|February 10<br />
|John Mackay (Bristol)<br />
|Poincaré profiles on graphs and groups, and a coarse geometric<br />
dichotomy<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|February 17<br />
|Benjamin Branman (Wisconsin)<br />
|TBA<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|February 24<br />
|Uri Bader (Weizmann Institute)<br />
|TBA<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|March 3<br />
|Omri Sarig (Weizmann Institute)<br />
|TBA<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|March 10<br />
|Chris Leininger (Rice University)<br />
|TBA<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|March 17<br />
|Ethan Farber (Boston College)<br />
|TBA<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|March 24<br />
|Jon Chaika (Utah)<br />
|TBA<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|March 31<br />
|Harrison Bray (George Mason)<br />
|TBA<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|April 28<br />
|Matt Bainbridge (Indiana)<br />
|TBA<br />
|}<br />
<br />
== Fall 2020 ==<br />
<br />
{| cellpadding="8"<br />
!align="left" | date<br />
!align="left" | speaker<br />
!align="left" | title<br />
!align="left" | host(s)<br />
|-<br />
|September 16<br />
|Andrew Zimmer (Wisconsin)<br />
|An introduction to Anosov representations I<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|September 23<br />
|Andrew Zimmer (Wisconsin)<br />
|An introduction to Anosov representations II<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|September 30<br />
|Chenxi Wu (Wisconsin)<br />
|Asymptoic translation lengths on curve complexes and free factor complexes<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|October 7<br />
|Kathryn Lindsey (Boston College)<br />
|Slices of Thurston's Master Teapot<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|October 14<br />
|Daniel Thompson (Ohio State)<br />
|Strong ergodic properties for equilibrium states in non-positive curvature<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|October 21<br />
|Giulio Tiozzo (Toronto)<br />
|Metrics on trees, laminations, and core entropy<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|October 28<br />
|No talk<br />
|No talk<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|November 4<br />
|Clark Butler (Princeton)<br />
|"Unbounded uniformizations of Grkmov hyperbolic spaces"<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|November 11<br />
|Subhadip Dey (Yale)<br />
|Patterson-Sullivan measures for Anosov subgroups<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|November 18<br />
|Nattalie Tamam (UCSD)<br />
|Effective equidistribution of horospherical flows in infinite volume<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|November 25<br />
|Tariq Osman (Queens)<br />
|Limit Theorems for Quadratic Weyl Sums<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|December 2<br />
|Wenyu Pan (Chicago)<br />
|Exponential mixing of geodesic flows for geometrically finite hyperbolic manifolds with cusps<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
== Spring Abstracts ==<br />
<br />
===Daniel Woodhouse===<br />
<br />
"Quasi-isometric Rigidity of graphs of free groups with cyclic edge groups"<br />
<br />
Let F be a finitely rank free group.<br />
Let w_1 and w_2 be suitable random/generic elements in F.<br />
Consider the HNN extension G = <F, t | t w_1 t^{-1} = w_2 >.<br />
It is known from existing results that G will be 1-ended and hyperbolic.<br />
We have shown that G is quasi-isometrically rigid.<br />
That is to say that if a f.g. group H is quasi-isometric to G, then G and H are virtually isomorphic.<br />
The full result is for finite graphs of groups with virtually free vertex groups and and two-ended edge groups, but the statement is more technical -- not all such groups are QI-rigid.<br />
The main argument involves applying a new proof of Leighton's graph covering theorem.<br />
This is joint work with Sam Shepherd.<br />
<br />
===John Mackay===<br />
<br />
"Poincaré profiles on graphs and groups, and a coarse geometric<br />
dichotomy"<br />
<br />
The separation profile of an infinite graph was introduced by<br />
Benjamini-Schramm-Timar. It is a function which measures how<br />
well-connected the graph is by how hard it is to cut finite subgraphs<br />
into small pieces. In earlier joint work with David Hume and Romain<br />
Tessera, we introduced Poincaré profiles, generalising this concept by<br />
using p-Poincaré inequalities to measure the connected-ness of<br />
subgraphs. I will discuss this family of invariants, their applications<br />
to coarse embedding problems, and recent work finding the profiles of<br />
all connected unimodular Lie groups, where a dichotomy is exhibited.<br />
Joint with Hume and Tessera.<br />
<br />
== Fall Abstracts ==<br />
<br />
===Andrew Zimmer===<br />
<br />
"An introduction to Anosov representations"<br />
<br />
Anosov representations are a special class of representations of finitely generated groups into Lie groups, which are defined using ideas from dynamics (namely, the theory of Anosov flows). In this talk, I will explain the definition (in a special case), give some examples, and describe some properties. I will focus on the case of representations into the general linear group where no background knowledge about Lie groups is required.<br />
<br />
<br />
===Chenxi Wu===<br />
<br />
"Asymptotic translation lengths on curve complexes and free factor complexes"<br />
<br />
The curve complex of a closed surface is a simplicial complex where the vertices are simple closed curves up to isotopy and faces are curves that are disjoint, and an analogy for the curve complex in the setting of Out(F_n) is the free factor complex. A pseudo-Anosov map induces a map from the curve graph to itself, and a basic question is to study the asymptotic translation length which is known to be a non-zero rational number. I will review some prior results on the study of this asymptotic translation length, as well as some of their analogies in the setting of free factor complexes. The latter part is an ongoing project with Hyrungryul Baik and Dongryul Kim. [https://wuchenxi.github.io/graph.pdf Slides]<br />
<br />
<br />
===Kathryn Lindsey===<br />
<br />
"Slices of Thurston's Master Teapot"<br />
<br />
Thurston's Master Teapot is the closure of the set of all points $(z,\lambda) \in \mathbb{C} \times \mathbb{R}$ such that $\lambda$ is the growth rate of a critically periodic unimodal self-map of an interval and $z$ is a Galois conjugate of $\lambda$. I will present a new characterization of which points are in this set. This characterization gives a way to think of each horizontal slice of the Master Teapot as an analogy of the Mandelbrot set for a "restricted iterated function system." An application of this characterization is that the Master Teapot is not invariant under the map $(z,\lambda) \mapsto (-z,\lambda)$. This presentation is based on joint work with Chenxi Wu.<br />
<br />
<br />
===Daniel Thompson===<br />
<br />
"Strong ergodic properties for equilibrium states in non-positive curvature"<br />
<br />
Equilibrium states for geodesic flows over compact rank 1 manifolds and sufficiently regular potential functions were studied by Burns, Climenhaga, Fisher and myself. We showed that if the higher rank set does not carry full topological pressure then the equilibrium state is unique. In this talk, I will describe some recent results on the dynamical properties of these unique equilibrium states. We show that these equilibrium states have the Kolmogorov property (joint with Ben Call), and that approximations of the equilibrium states by regular closed geodesics asymptotically satisfy a type of Central Limit Theorem (joint with Tianyu Wang).<br />
<br />
===Giulio Tiozzo===<br />
<br />
"Metrics on trees, laminations, and core entropy"<br />
<br />
The notion of core entropy, defined as the entropy of the restriction to the Hubbard tree,<br />
was formulated by W. Thurston to produce a combinatorial invariant which captures the topological complexity of polynomial Julia sets and varies in a rich fractal way over parameter space.<br />
<br />
Core entropy has been so far defined by looking at a Markov partition on the tree, or by a combinatorial construction involving infinite graphs. We will introduce a new interpretation of core entropy based on metrics on trees and, dually, on transverse measures on laminations<br />
defining the Julia set.<br />
<br />
On the one hand, this will define a new notion of transverse measures on quadratic laminations, completing the analogy with laminations on surfaces on the “other side” of Sullivan’s dictionary.<br />
Moreover, this is also related to a question of Milnor on a piecewise-linear analogue of Thurston iteration on Teichmueller space.<br />
<br />
===Clark Butler===<br />
<br />
"Unbounded uniformizations of Grkmov hyperbolic spaces"<br />
<br />
In a fundamental work Bonk, Heinonen, and Koskela established a conformal correspondence between Gromov hyperbolic spaces and bounded uniform spaces (satisfying certain additional hypotheses) that generalized the classical conformal correspondence between the Euclidean unit disk and the hyperbolic plane. We prove a similar conformal correspondence between Gromov hyperbolic spaces and unbounded uniform spaces that extends the correspondence between the Euclidean upper half plane and the hyperbolic plane. Our primary application of this uniformization procedure is to extend a number of recent results of Bjorn-Bjorn-Shanmugalingam for Besov spaces on compact metric spaces to Besov spaces on proper metric spaces. These results are derived through a Patterson-Sullivan-esque construction by realizing certain measures on these metric spaces as the boundary values of measures on uniformized Gromov hyperbolic spaces having these metric spaces as their boundaries.<br />
<br />
===Subhadip Dey===<br />
<br />
"Patterson-Sullivan measures for Anosov subgroups"<br />
<br />
Patterson-Sullivan measures were introduced by Patterson (1976) and Sullivan (1979) to study the Kleinian groups and their limit sets. In this talk, we discuss an extension of this classical construction for $P$-Anosov subgroups $\Gamma$ of $G$, where $G$ is a real semisimple Lie group and $P<G$ is a parabolic subgroup. In parallel with the theory for Kleinian groups, we will discuss how one can understand the Hausdorff dimension of the limit set of $\Gamma$ in terms of a certain critical exponent. This is a joint work with Michael Kapovich.<br />
<br />
===Nattalie Tamam===<br />
<br />
"Effective equidistribution of horospherical flows in infinite volume"<br />
<br />
Horospherical flows in homogeneous spaces have been studied intensively over the last several decades and have many surprising applications in various fields. Many basic results are under the assumption that the volume of the space is finite, which is crucial as many basic ergodic theorems fail in the setting of an infinite measure space.In the talk we will discuss the infinite volume setting, and specifically, when can we expect horospherical orbits to equidistribute. Our goal will be to provide an effective equidistribution result, with polynomial rate, for horospherical orbits in the frame bundle of certain infinite volume hyperbolic manifolds. This is a joint work with Jacqueline Warren.<br />
<br />
===Tariq Osman===<br />
<br />
"Limit Theorems for Quadratic Weyl Sums"<br />
<br />
Consider exponential sums of the form $S_N(x, \alpha) := \sum_{n = 1}^{N}e(1/2 n^2 x + n\alpha)$, known as quadratic Weyl sums. We will use homogeneous dynamics to establish a limiting distribution for $\frac{1}{\sqrt N} |S_N(x, \alpha)|$, when $\alpha$ is a fixed rational, and $x$ is chosen uniformly from the unit interval. Time permitting, we will study the tails of the limiting distribution to show that this is not the central limit theorem in disguise. (This is joint work with Francesco Cellarosi)<br />
<br />
===Wenyu Pan===<br />
<br />
"Exponential mixing of geodesic flows for geometrically finite hyperbolic manifolds with cusps"<br />
<br />
Let $\mathbb{H}^n$ be the hyperbolic $n$-space and $\Gamma$ be a geometrically finite discrete subgroup in $\operatorname{Isom}_{+}(\mathbb{H}^n)$ with parabolic elements. In the joint work with Jialun LI, we establish exponential mixing of the geodesic flow over the unit tangent bundle $T^1(\Gamma\backslash \mathbb{H}^n)$ with respect to the Bowen-Margulis-Sullivan measure. Our approach is to construct coding for the geodesic flow and then prove a Dolgopyat-type spectral estimate for the corresponding transfer operator. In the talk, I am planning to explain the construction of the coding. I will also discuss the application of obtaining a resonance-free region for the resolvent on $\Gamma\backslash \mathbb{H}^n$.</div>Cwu367https://wiki.math.wisc.edu/index.php?title=Dynamics_Seminar_2020-2021&diff=20795Dynamics Seminar 2020-20212021-02-08T17:03:50Z<p>Cwu367: /* Spring Abstracts */</p>
<hr />
<div>The [[Dynamics Seminar]] meets virtually on '''Wednesdays''' from '''2:30pm - 3:20pm'''.<br />
<br> <br />
For more information, contact Chenxi Wu.<br />
To sign up for the mailing list send an email from your wisc.edu address to dynamics+join@g-groups.wisc.edu<br />
<br />
The zoom login info is as follows:<br />
<br />
Join Zoom Meeting<br />
https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/93164776780?pwd=anE2Y3RhWk1VR0lDa0hnMzhPTTJEUT09<br />
<br />
Meeting ID: 931 6477 6780<br />
Passcode: 819612<br />
<br />
<br />
[[Image:Hawk.jpg|thumb|300px]]<br />
<br />
== Spring 2021 ==<br />
<br />
{| cellpadding="8"<br />
!align="left" | date<br />
!align="left" | speaker<br />
!align="left" | title<br />
!align="left" | host(s)<br />
|-<br />
|February 3<br />
|Daniel Woodhouse (Oxford)<br />
|Quasi-isometric Rigidity of graphs of free groups with cyclic edge groups<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|February 10<br />
|John Mackay (Bristol)<br />
|TBA<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|February 17<br />
|Benjamin Branman (Wisconsin)<br />
|TBA<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|February 24<br />
|Uri Bader (Weizmann Institute)<br />
|TBA<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|March 3<br />
|Omri Sarig (Weizmann Institute)<br />
|TBA<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|March 10<br />
|Chris Leininger (Rice University)<br />
|TBA<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|March 17<br />
|Ethan Farber (Boston College)<br />
|TBA<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|March 24<br />
|Jon Chaika (Utah)<br />
|TBA<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|March 31<br />
|Harrison Bray (George Mason)<br />
|TBA<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|April 28<br />
|Matt Bainbridge (Indiana)<br />
|TBA<br />
|}<br />
<br />
== Fall 2020 ==<br />
<br />
{| cellpadding="8"<br />
!align="left" | date<br />
!align="left" | speaker<br />
!align="left" | title<br />
!align="left" | host(s)<br />
|-<br />
|September 16<br />
|Andrew Zimmer (Wisconsin)<br />
|An introduction to Anosov representations I<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|September 23<br />
|Andrew Zimmer (Wisconsin)<br />
|An introduction to Anosov representations II<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|September 30<br />
|Chenxi Wu (Wisconsin)<br />
|Asymptoic translation lengths on curve complexes and free factor complexes<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|October 7<br />
|Kathryn Lindsey (Boston College)<br />
|Slices of Thurston's Master Teapot<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|October 14<br />
|Daniel Thompson (Ohio State)<br />
|Strong ergodic properties for equilibrium states in non-positive curvature<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|October 21<br />
|Giulio Tiozzo (Toronto)<br />
|Metrics on trees, laminations, and core entropy<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|October 28<br />
|No talk<br />
|No talk<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|November 4<br />
|Clark Butler (Princeton)<br />
|"Unbounded uniformizations of Grkmov hyperbolic spaces"<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|November 11<br />
|Subhadip Dey (Yale)<br />
|Patterson-Sullivan measures for Anosov subgroups<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|November 18<br />
|Nattalie Tamam (UCSD)<br />
|Effective equidistribution of horospherical flows in infinite volume<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|November 25<br />
|Tariq Osman (Queens)<br />
|Limit Theorems for Quadratic Weyl Sums<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|December 2<br />
|Wenyu Pan (Chicago)<br />
|Exponential mixing of geodesic flows for geometrically finite hyperbolic manifolds with cusps<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
== Spring Abstracts ==<br />
<br />
===Daniel Woodhouse===<br />
<br />
"Quasi-isometric Rigidity of graphs of free groups with cyclic edge groups"<br />
<br />
Let F be a finitely rank free group.<br />
Let w_1 and w_2 be suitable random/generic elements in F.<br />
Consider the HNN extension G = <F, t | t w_1 t^{-1} = w_2 >.<br />
It is known from existing results that G will be 1-ended and hyperbolic.<br />
We have shown that G is quasi-isometrically rigid.<br />
That is to say that if a f.g. group H is quasi-isometric to G, then G and H are virtually isomorphic.<br />
The full result is for finite graphs of groups with virtually free vertex groups and and two-ended edge groups, but the statement is more technical -- not all such groups are QI-rigid.<br />
The main argument involves applying a new proof of Leighton's graph covering theorem.<br />
This is joint work with Sam Shepherd.<br />
<br />
===John Mackay===<br />
<br />
"Poincaré profiles on graphs and groups, and a coarse geometric<br />
dichotomy"<br />
<br />
The separation profile of an infinite graph was introduced by<br />
Benjamini-Schramm-Timar. It is a function which measures how<br />
well-connected the graph is by how hard it is to cut finite subgraphs<br />
into small pieces. In earlier joint work with David Hume and Romain<br />
Tessera, we introduced Poincaré profiles, generalising this concept by<br />
using p-Poincaré inequalities to measure the connected-ness of<br />
subgraphs. I will discuss this family of invariants, their applications<br />
to coarse embedding problems, and recent work finding the profiles of<br />
all connected unimodular Lie groups, where a dichotomy is exhibited.<br />
Joint with Hume and Tessera.<br />
<br />
== Fall Abstracts ==<br />
<br />
===Andrew Zimmer===<br />
<br />
"An introduction to Anosov representations"<br />
<br />
Anosov representations are a special class of representations of finitely generated groups into Lie groups, which are defined using ideas from dynamics (namely, the theory of Anosov flows). In this talk, I will explain the definition (in a special case), give some examples, and describe some properties. I will focus on the case of representations into the general linear group where no background knowledge about Lie groups is required.<br />
<br />
<br />
===Chenxi Wu===<br />
<br />
"Asymptotic translation lengths on curve complexes and free factor complexes"<br />
<br />
The curve complex of a closed surface is a simplicial complex where the vertices are simple closed curves up to isotopy and faces are curves that are disjoint, and an analogy for the curve complex in the setting of Out(F_n) is the free factor complex. A pseudo-Anosov map induces a map from the curve graph to itself, and a basic question is to study the asymptotic translation length which is known to be a non-zero rational number. I will review some prior results on the study of this asymptotic translation length, as well as some of their analogies in the setting of free factor complexes. The latter part is an ongoing project with Hyrungryul Baik and Dongryul Kim. [https://wuchenxi.github.io/graph.pdf Slides]<br />
<br />
<br />
===Kathryn Lindsey===<br />
<br />
"Slices of Thurston's Master Teapot"<br />
<br />
Thurston's Master Teapot is the closure of the set of all points $(z,\lambda) \in \mathbb{C} \times \mathbb{R}$ such that $\lambda$ is the growth rate of a critically periodic unimodal self-map of an interval and $z$ is a Galois conjugate of $\lambda$. I will present a new characterization of which points are in this set. This characterization gives a way to think of each horizontal slice of the Master Teapot as an analogy of the Mandelbrot set for a "restricted iterated function system." An application of this characterization is that the Master Teapot is not invariant under the map $(z,\lambda) \mapsto (-z,\lambda)$. This presentation is based on joint work with Chenxi Wu.<br />
<br />
<br />
===Daniel Thompson===<br />
<br />
"Strong ergodic properties for equilibrium states in non-positive curvature"<br />
<br />
Equilibrium states for geodesic flows over compact rank 1 manifolds and sufficiently regular potential functions were studied by Burns, Climenhaga, Fisher and myself. We showed that if the higher rank set does not carry full topological pressure then the equilibrium state is unique. In this talk, I will describe some recent results on the dynamical properties of these unique equilibrium states. We show that these equilibrium states have the Kolmogorov property (joint with Ben Call), and that approximations of the equilibrium states by regular closed geodesics asymptotically satisfy a type of Central Limit Theorem (joint with Tianyu Wang).<br />
<br />
===Giulio Tiozzo===<br />
<br />
"Metrics on trees, laminations, and core entropy"<br />
<br />
The notion of core entropy, defined as the entropy of the restriction to the Hubbard tree,<br />
was formulated by W. Thurston to produce a combinatorial invariant which captures the topological complexity of polynomial Julia sets and varies in a rich fractal way over parameter space.<br />
<br />
Core entropy has been so far defined by looking at a Markov partition on the tree, or by a combinatorial construction involving infinite graphs. We will introduce a new interpretation of core entropy based on metrics on trees and, dually, on transverse measures on laminations<br />
defining the Julia set.<br />
<br />
On the one hand, this will define a new notion of transverse measures on quadratic laminations, completing the analogy with laminations on surfaces on the “other side” of Sullivan’s dictionary.<br />
Moreover, this is also related to a question of Milnor on a piecewise-linear analogue of Thurston iteration on Teichmueller space.<br />
<br />
===Clark Butler===<br />
<br />
"Unbounded uniformizations of Grkmov hyperbolic spaces"<br />
<br />
In a fundamental work Bonk, Heinonen, and Koskela established a conformal correspondence between Gromov hyperbolic spaces and bounded uniform spaces (satisfying certain additional hypotheses) that generalized the classical conformal correspondence between the Euclidean unit disk and the hyperbolic plane. We prove a similar conformal correspondence between Gromov hyperbolic spaces and unbounded uniform spaces that extends the correspondence between the Euclidean upper half plane and the hyperbolic plane. Our primary application of this uniformization procedure is to extend a number of recent results of Bjorn-Bjorn-Shanmugalingam for Besov spaces on compact metric spaces to Besov spaces on proper metric spaces. These results are derived through a Patterson-Sullivan-esque construction by realizing certain measures on these metric spaces as the boundary values of measures on uniformized Gromov hyperbolic spaces having these metric spaces as their boundaries.<br />
<br />
===Subhadip Dey===<br />
<br />
"Patterson-Sullivan measures for Anosov subgroups"<br />
<br />
Patterson-Sullivan measures were introduced by Patterson (1976) and Sullivan (1979) to study the Kleinian groups and their limit sets. In this talk, we discuss an extension of this classical construction for $P$-Anosov subgroups $\Gamma$ of $G$, where $G$ is a real semisimple Lie group and $P<G$ is a parabolic subgroup. In parallel with the theory for Kleinian groups, we will discuss how one can understand the Hausdorff dimension of the limit set of $\Gamma$ in terms of a certain critical exponent. This is a joint work with Michael Kapovich.<br />
<br />
===Nattalie Tamam===<br />
<br />
"Effective equidistribution of horospherical flows in infinite volume"<br />
<br />
Horospherical flows in homogeneous spaces have been studied intensively over the last several decades and have many surprising applications in various fields. Many basic results are under the assumption that the volume of the space is finite, which is crucial as many basic ergodic theorems fail in the setting of an infinite measure space.In the talk we will discuss the infinite volume setting, and specifically, when can we expect horospherical orbits to equidistribute. Our goal will be to provide an effective equidistribution result, with polynomial rate, for horospherical orbits in the frame bundle of certain infinite volume hyperbolic manifolds. This is a joint work with Jacqueline Warren.<br />
<br />
===Tariq Osman===<br />
<br />
"Limit Theorems for Quadratic Weyl Sums"<br />
<br />
Consider exponential sums of the form $S_N(x, \alpha) := \sum_{n = 1}^{N}e(1/2 n^2 x + n\alpha)$, known as quadratic Weyl sums. We will use homogeneous dynamics to establish a limiting distribution for $\frac{1}{\sqrt N} |S_N(x, \alpha)|$, when $\alpha$ is a fixed rational, and $x$ is chosen uniformly from the unit interval. Time permitting, we will study the tails of the limiting distribution to show that this is not the central limit theorem in disguise. (This is joint work with Francesco Cellarosi)<br />
<br />
===Wenyu Pan===<br />
<br />
"Exponential mixing of geodesic flows for geometrically finite hyperbolic manifolds with cusps"<br />
<br />
Let $\mathbb{H}^n$ be the hyperbolic $n$-space and $\Gamma$ be a geometrically finite discrete subgroup in $\operatorname{Isom}_{+}(\mathbb{H}^n)$ with parabolic elements. In the joint work with Jialun LI, we establish exponential mixing of the geodesic flow over the unit tangent bundle $T^1(\Gamma\backslash \mathbb{H}^n)$ with respect to the Bowen-Margulis-Sullivan measure. Our approach is to construct coding for the geodesic flow and then prove a Dolgopyat-type spectral estimate for the corresponding transfer operator. In the talk, I am planning to explain the construction of the coding. I will also discuss the application of obtaining a resonance-free region for the resolvent on $\Gamma\backslash \mathbb{H}^n$.</div>Cwu367https://wiki.math.wisc.edu/index.php?title=Dynamics_Seminar_2020-2021&diff=20712Dynamics Seminar 2020-20212021-01-31T22:12:33Z<p>Cwu367: </p>
<hr />
<div>The [[Dynamics Seminar]] meets virtually on '''Wednesdays''' from '''2:30pm - 3:20pm'''.<br />
<br> <br />
For more information, contact Chenxi Wu.<br />
To sign up for the mailing list send an email from your wisc.edu address to dynamics+join@g-groups.wisc.edu<br />
<br />
The zoom login info is as follows:<br />
<br />
Join Zoom Meeting<br />
https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/93164776780?pwd=anE2Y3RhWk1VR0lDa0hnMzhPTTJEUT09<br />
<br />
Meeting ID: 931 6477 6780<br />
Passcode: 819612<br />
<br />
<br />
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<br />
== Spring 2021 ==<br />
<br />
{| cellpadding="8"<br />
!align="left" | date<br />
!align="left" | speaker<br />
!align="left" | title<br />
!align="left" | host(s)<br />
|-<br />
|February 3<br />
|Daniel Woodhouse (Oxford)<br />
|Quasi-isometric Rigidity of graphs of free groups with cyclic edge groups<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|February 10<br />
|John Mackay (Bristol)<br />
|TBA<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|February 17<br />
|Benjamin Branman (Wisconsin)<br />
|TBA<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|February 24<br />
|Uri Bader (Weizmann Institute)<br />
|TBA<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|March 3<br />
|Omri Sarig (Weizmann Institute)<br />
|TBA<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|March 10<br />
|Chris Leininger (Rice University)<br />
|TBA<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|March 17<br />
|Ethan Farber (Boston College)<br />
|TBA<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|March 24<br />
|Jon Chaika (Utah)<br />
|TBA<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|March 31<br />
|Harrison Bray (George Mason)<br />
|TBA<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|April 28<br />
|Matt Bainbridge (Indiana)<br />
|TBA<br />
|}<br />
<br />
== Fall 2020 ==<br />
<br />
{| cellpadding="8"<br />
!align="left" | date<br />
!align="left" | speaker<br />
!align="left" | title<br />
!align="left" | host(s)<br />
|-<br />
|September 16<br />
|Andrew Zimmer (Wisconsin)<br />
|An introduction to Anosov representations I<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|September 23<br />
|Andrew Zimmer (Wisconsin)<br />
|An introduction to Anosov representations II<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|September 30<br />
|Chenxi Wu (Wisconsin)<br />
|Asymptoic translation lengths on curve complexes and free factor complexes<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|October 7<br />
|Kathryn Lindsey (Boston College)<br />
|Slices of Thurston's Master Teapot<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|October 14<br />
|Daniel Thompson (Ohio State)<br />
|Strong ergodic properties for equilibrium states in non-positive curvature<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|October 21<br />
|Giulio Tiozzo (Toronto)<br />
|Metrics on trees, laminations, and core entropy<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|October 28<br />
|No talk<br />
|No talk<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|November 4<br />
|Clark Butler (Princeton)<br />
|"Unbounded uniformizations of Grkmov hyperbolic spaces"<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|November 11<br />
|Subhadip Dey (Yale)<br />
|Patterson-Sullivan measures for Anosov subgroups<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|November 18<br />
|Nattalie Tamam (UCSD)<br />
|Effective equidistribution of horospherical flows in infinite volume<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|November 25<br />
|Tariq Osman (Queens)<br />
|Limit Theorems for Quadratic Weyl Sums<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|December 2<br />
|Wenyu Pan (Chicago)<br />
|Exponential mixing of geodesic flows for geometrically finite hyperbolic manifolds with cusps<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
== Spring Abstracts ==<br />
<br />
===Daniel Woodhouse===<br />
<br />
"Quasi-isometric Rigidity of graphs of free groups with cyclic edge groups"<br />
<br />
Let F be a finitely rank free group.<br />
Let w_1 and w_2 be suitable random/generic elements in F.<br />
Consider the HNN extension G = <F, t | t w_1 t^{-1} = w_2 >.<br />
It is known from existing results that G will be 1-ended and hyperbolic.<br />
We have shown that G is quasi-isometrically rigid.<br />
That is to say that if a f.g. group H is quasi-isometric to G, then G and H are virtually isomorphic.<br />
The full result is for finite graphs of groups with virtually free vertex groups and and two-ended edge groups, but the statement is more technical -- not all such groups are QI-rigid.<br />
The main argument involves applying a new proof of Leighton's graph covering theorem.<br />
This is joint work with Sam Shepherd.<br />
<br />
== Fall Abstracts ==<br />
<br />
===Andrew Zimmer===<br />
<br />
"An introduction to Anosov representations"<br />
<br />
Anosov representations are a special class of representations of finitely generated groups into Lie groups, which are defined using ideas from dynamics (namely, the theory of Anosov flows). In this talk, I will explain the definition (in a special case), give some examples, and describe some properties. I will focus on the case of representations into the general linear group where no background knowledge about Lie groups is required.<br />
<br />
<br />
===Chenxi Wu===<br />
<br />
"Asymptotic translation lengths on curve complexes and free factor complexes"<br />
<br />
The curve complex of a closed surface is a simplicial complex where the vertices are simple closed curves up to isotopy and faces are curves that are disjoint, and an analogy for the curve complex in the setting of Out(F_n) is the free factor complex. A pseudo-Anosov map induces a map from the curve graph to itself, and a basic question is to study the asymptotic translation length which is known to be a non-zero rational number. I will review some prior results on the study of this asymptotic translation length, as well as some of their analogies in the setting of free factor complexes. The latter part is an ongoing project with Hyrungryul Baik and Dongryul Kim. [https://wuchenxi.github.io/graph.pdf Slides]<br />
<br />
<br />
===Kathryn Lindsey===<br />
<br />
"Slices of Thurston's Master Teapot"<br />
<br />
Thurston's Master Teapot is the closure of the set of all points $(z,\lambda) \in \mathbb{C} \times \mathbb{R}$ such that $\lambda$ is the growth rate of a critically periodic unimodal self-map of an interval and $z$ is a Galois conjugate of $\lambda$. I will present a new characterization of which points are in this set. This characterization gives a way to think of each horizontal slice of the Master Teapot as an analogy of the Mandelbrot set for a "restricted iterated function system." An application of this characterization is that the Master Teapot is not invariant under the map $(z,\lambda) \mapsto (-z,\lambda)$. This presentation is based on joint work with Chenxi Wu.<br />
<br />
<br />
===Daniel Thompson===<br />
<br />
"Strong ergodic properties for equilibrium states in non-positive curvature"<br />
<br />
Equilibrium states for geodesic flows over compact rank 1 manifolds and sufficiently regular potential functions were studied by Burns, Climenhaga, Fisher and myself. We showed that if the higher rank set does not carry full topological pressure then the equilibrium state is unique. In this talk, I will describe some recent results on the dynamical properties of these unique equilibrium states. We show that these equilibrium states have the Kolmogorov property (joint with Ben Call), and that approximations of the equilibrium states by regular closed geodesics asymptotically satisfy a type of Central Limit Theorem (joint with Tianyu Wang).<br />
<br />
===Giulio Tiozzo===<br />
<br />
"Metrics on trees, laminations, and core entropy"<br />
<br />
The notion of core entropy, defined as the entropy of the restriction to the Hubbard tree,<br />
was formulated by W. Thurston to produce a combinatorial invariant which captures the topological complexity of polynomial Julia sets and varies in a rich fractal way over parameter space.<br />
<br />
Core entropy has been so far defined by looking at a Markov partition on the tree, or by a combinatorial construction involving infinite graphs. We will introduce a new interpretation of core entropy based on metrics on trees and, dually, on transverse measures on laminations<br />
defining the Julia set.<br />
<br />
On the one hand, this will define a new notion of transverse measures on quadratic laminations, completing the analogy with laminations on surfaces on the “other side” of Sullivan’s dictionary.<br />
Moreover, this is also related to a question of Milnor on a piecewise-linear analogue of Thurston iteration on Teichmueller space.<br />
<br />
===Clark Butler===<br />
<br />
"Unbounded uniformizations of Grkmov hyperbolic spaces"<br />
<br />
In a fundamental work Bonk, Heinonen, and Koskela established a conformal correspondence between Gromov hyperbolic spaces and bounded uniform spaces (satisfying certain additional hypotheses) that generalized the classical conformal correspondence between the Euclidean unit disk and the hyperbolic plane. We prove a similar conformal correspondence between Gromov hyperbolic spaces and unbounded uniform spaces that extends the correspondence between the Euclidean upper half plane and the hyperbolic plane. Our primary application of this uniformization procedure is to extend a number of recent results of Bjorn-Bjorn-Shanmugalingam for Besov spaces on compact metric spaces to Besov spaces on proper metric spaces. These results are derived through a Patterson-Sullivan-esque construction by realizing certain measures on these metric spaces as the boundary values of measures on uniformized Gromov hyperbolic spaces having these metric spaces as their boundaries.<br />
<br />
===Subhadip Dey===<br />
<br />
"Patterson-Sullivan measures for Anosov subgroups"<br />
<br />
Patterson-Sullivan measures were introduced by Patterson (1976) and Sullivan (1979) to study the Kleinian groups and their limit sets. In this talk, we discuss an extension of this classical construction for $P$-Anosov subgroups $\Gamma$ of $G$, where $G$ is a real semisimple Lie group and $P<G$ is a parabolic subgroup. In parallel with the theory for Kleinian groups, we will discuss how one can understand the Hausdorff dimension of the limit set of $\Gamma$ in terms of a certain critical exponent. This is a joint work with Michael Kapovich.<br />
<br />
===Nattalie Tamam===<br />
<br />
"Effective equidistribution of horospherical flows in infinite volume"<br />
<br />
Horospherical flows in homogeneous spaces have been studied intensively over the last several decades and have many surprising applications in various fields. Many basic results are under the assumption that the volume of the space is finite, which is crucial as many basic ergodic theorems fail in the setting of an infinite measure space.In the talk we will discuss the infinite volume setting, and specifically, when can we expect horospherical orbits to equidistribute. Our goal will be to provide an effective equidistribution result, with polynomial rate, for horospherical orbits in the frame bundle of certain infinite volume hyperbolic manifolds. This is a joint work with Jacqueline Warren.<br />
<br />
===Tariq Osman===<br />
<br />
"Limit Theorems for Quadratic Weyl Sums"<br />
<br />
Consider exponential sums of the form $S_N(x, \alpha) := \sum_{n = 1}^{N}e(1/2 n^2 x + n\alpha)$, known as quadratic Weyl sums. We will use homogeneous dynamics to establish a limiting distribution for $\frac{1}{\sqrt N} |S_N(x, \alpha)|$, when $\alpha$ is a fixed rational, and $x$ is chosen uniformly from the unit interval. Time permitting, we will study the tails of the limiting distribution to show that this is not the central limit theorem in disguise. (This is joint work with Francesco Cellarosi)<br />
<br />
===Wenyu Pan===<br />
<br />
"Exponential mixing of geodesic flows for geometrically finite hyperbolic manifolds with cusps"<br />
<br />
Let $\mathbb{H}^n$ be the hyperbolic $n$-space and $\Gamma$ be a geometrically finite discrete subgroup in $\operatorname{Isom}_{+}(\mathbb{H}^n)$ with parabolic elements. In the joint work with Jialun LI, we establish exponential mixing of the geodesic flow over the unit tangent bundle $T^1(\Gamma\backslash \mathbb{H}^n)$ with respect to the Bowen-Margulis-Sullivan measure. Our approach is to construct coding for the geodesic flow and then prove a Dolgopyat-type spectral estimate for the corresponding transfer operator. In the talk, I am planning to explain the construction of the coding. I will also discuss the application of obtaining a resonance-free region for the resolvent on $\Gamma\backslash \mathbb{H}^n$.</div>Cwu367https://wiki.math.wisc.edu/index.php?title=Dynamics_Seminar_2020-2021&diff=20703Dynamics Seminar 2020-20212021-01-30T06:12:43Z<p>Cwu367: /* Spring 2021 */</p>
<hr />
<div>The [[Dynamics Seminar]] meets virtually on '''Wednesdays''' from '''2:30pm - 3:20pm'''.<br />
<br> <br />
For more information, contact Chenxi Wu.<br />
To sign up for the mailing list send an email from your wisc.edu address to dynamics+join@g-groups.wisc.edu<br />
<br />
The zoom login info is as follows:<br />
<br />
Join Zoom Meeting<br />
https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/93164776780?pwd=anE2Y3RhWk1VR0lDa0hnMzhPTTJEUT09<br />
<br />
Meeting ID: 931 6477 6780<br />
Passcode: 819612<br />
<br />
<br />
[[Image:Hawk.jpg|thumb|300px]]<br />
<br />
== Spring 2021 ==<br />
<br />
{| cellpadding="8"<br />
!align="left" | date<br />
!align="left" | speaker<br />
!align="left" | title<br />
!align="left" | host(s)<br />
|-<br />
|February 3<br />
|Daniel Woodhouse (Oxford)<br />
|TBA<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|February 10<br />
|John Mackay (Bristol)<br />
|TBA<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|February 17<br />
|Benjamin Branman (Wisconsin)<br />
|TBA<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|February 24<br />
|Uri Bader (Weizmann Institute)<br />
|TBA<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|March 3<br />
|Omri Sarig (Weizmann Institute)<br />
|TBA<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|March 10<br />
|Chris Leininger (Rice University)<br />
|TBA<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|March 17<br />
|Ethan Farber (Boston College)<br />
|TBA<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|March 24<br />
|Jon Chaika (Utah)<br />
|TBA<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|March 31<br />
|Harrison Bray (George Mason)<br />
|TBA<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|April 28<br />
|Matt Bainbridge (Indiana)<br />
|TBA<br />
|}<br />
<br />
== Fall 2020 ==<br />
<br />
{| cellpadding="8"<br />
!align="left" | date<br />
!align="left" | speaker<br />
!align="left" | title<br />
!align="left" | host(s)<br />
|-<br />
|September 16<br />
|Andrew Zimmer (Wisconsin)<br />
|An introduction to Anosov representations I<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|September 23<br />
|Andrew Zimmer (Wisconsin)<br />
|An introduction to Anosov representations II<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|September 30<br />
|Chenxi Wu (Wisconsin)<br />
|Asymptoic translation lengths on curve complexes and free factor complexes<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|October 7<br />
|Kathryn Lindsey (Boston College)<br />
|Slices of Thurston's Master Teapot<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|October 14<br />
|Daniel Thompson (Ohio State)<br />
|Strong ergodic properties for equilibrium states in non-positive curvature<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|October 21<br />
|Giulio Tiozzo (Toronto)<br />
|Metrics on trees, laminations, and core entropy<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|October 28<br />
|No talk<br />
|No talk<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|November 4<br />
|Clark Butler (Princeton)<br />
|"Unbounded uniformizations of Grkmov hyperbolic spaces"<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|November 11<br />
|Subhadip Dey (Yale)<br />
|Patterson-Sullivan measures for Anosov subgroups<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|November 18<br />
|Nattalie Tamam (UCSD)<br />
|Effective equidistribution of horospherical flows in infinite volume<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|November 25<br />
|Tariq Osman (Queens)<br />
|Limit Theorems for Quadratic Weyl Sums<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|December 2<br />
|Wenyu Pan (Chicago)<br />
|Exponential mixing of geodesic flows for geometrically finite hyperbolic manifolds with cusps<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
== Fall Abstracts ==<br />
<br />
===Andrew Zimmer===<br />
<br />
"An introduction to Anosov representations"<br />
<br />
Anosov representations are a special class of representations of finitely generated groups into Lie groups, which are defined using ideas from dynamics (namely, the theory of Anosov flows). In this talk, I will explain the definition (in a special case), give some examples, and describe some properties. I will focus on the case of representations into the general linear group where no background knowledge about Lie groups is required.<br />
<br />
<br />
===Chenxi Wu===<br />
<br />
"Asymptotic translation lengths on curve complexes and free factor complexes"<br />
<br />
The curve complex of a closed surface is a simplicial complex where the vertices are simple closed curves up to isotopy and faces are curves that are disjoint, and an analogy for the curve complex in the setting of Out(F_n) is the free factor complex. A pseudo-Anosov map induces a map from the curve graph to itself, and a basic question is to study the asymptotic translation length which is known to be a non-zero rational number. I will review some prior results on the study of this asymptotic translation length, as well as some of their analogies in the setting of free factor complexes. The latter part is an ongoing project with Hyrungryul Baik and Dongryul Kim. [https://wuchenxi.github.io/graph.pdf Slides]<br />
<br />
<br />
===Kathryn Lindsey===<br />
<br />
"Slices of Thurston's Master Teapot"<br />
<br />
Thurston's Master Teapot is the closure of the set of all points $(z,\lambda) \in \mathbb{C} \times \mathbb{R}$ such that $\lambda$ is the growth rate of a critically periodic unimodal self-map of an interval and $z$ is a Galois conjugate of $\lambda$. I will present a new characterization of which points are in this set. This characterization gives a way to think of each horizontal slice of the Master Teapot as an analogy of the Mandelbrot set for a "restricted iterated function system." An application of this characterization is that the Master Teapot is not invariant under the map $(z,\lambda) \mapsto (-z,\lambda)$. This presentation is based on joint work with Chenxi Wu.<br />
<br />
<br />
===Daniel Thompson===<br />
<br />
"Strong ergodic properties for equilibrium states in non-positive curvature"<br />
<br />
Equilibrium states for geodesic flows over compact rank 1 manifolds and sufficiently regular potential functions were studied by Burns, Climenhaga, Fisher and myself. We showed that if the higher rank set does not carry full topological pressure then the equilibrium state is unique. In this talk, I will describe some recent results on the dynamical properties of these unique equilibrium states. We show that these equilibrium states have the Kolmogorov property (joint with Ben Call), and that approximations of the equilibrium states by regular closed geodesics asymptotically satisfy a type of Central Limit Theorem (joint with Tianyu Wang).<br />
<br />
===Giulio Tiozzo===<br />
<br />
"Metrics on trees, laminations, and core entropy"<br />
<br />
The notion of core entropy, defined as the entropy of the restriction to the Hubbard tree,<br />
was formulated by W. Thurston to produce a combinatorial invariant which captures the topological complexity of polynomial Julia sets and varies in a rich fractal way over parameter space.<br />
<br />
Core entropy has been so far defined by looking at a Markov partition on the tree, or by a combinatorial construction involving infinite graphs. We will introduce a new interpretation of core entropy based on metrics on trees and, dually, on transverse measures on laminations<br />
defining the Julia set.<br />
<br />
On the one hand, this will define a new notion of transverse measures on quadratic laminations, completing the analogy with laminations on surfaces on the “other side” of Sullivan’s dictionary.<br />
Moreover, this is also related to a question of Milnor on a piecewise-linear analogue of Thurston iteration on Teichmueller space.<br />
<br />
===Clark Butler===<br />
<br />
"Unbounded uniformizations of Grkmov hyperbolic spaces"<br />
<br />
In a fundamental work Bonk, Heinonen, and Koskela established a conformal correspondence between Gromov hyperbolic spaces and bounded uniform spaces (satisfying certain additional hypotheses) that generalized the classical conformal correspondence between the Euclidean unit disk and the hyperbolic plane. We prove a similar conformal correspondence between Gromov hyperbolic spaces and unbounded uniform spaces that extends the correspondence between the Euclidean upper half plane and the hyperbolic plane. Our primary application of this uniformization procedure is to extend a number of recent results of Bjorn-Bjorn-Shanmugalingam for Besov spaces on compact metric spaces to Besov spaces on proper metric spaces. These results are derived through a Patterson-Sullivan-esque construction by realizing certain measures on these metric spaces as the boundary values of measures on uniformized Gromov hyperbolic spaces having these metric spaces as their boundaries.<br />
<br />
===Subhadip Dey===<br />
<br />
"Patterson-Sullivan measures for Anosov subgroups"<br />
<br />
Patterson-Sullivan measures were introduced by Patterson (1976) and Sullivan (1979) to study the Kleinian groups and their limit sets. In this talk, we discuss an extension of this classical construction for $P$-Anosov subgroups $\Gamma$ of $G$, where $G$ is a real semisimple Lie group and $P<G$ is a parabolic subgroup. In parallel with the theory for Kleinian groups, we will discuss how one can understand the Hausdorff dimension of the limit set of $\Gamma$ in terms of a certain critical exponent. This is a joint work with Michael Kapovich.<br />
<br />
===Nattalie Tamam===<br />
<br />
"Effective equidistribution of horospherical flows in infinite volume"<br />
<br />
Horospherical flows in homogeneous spaces have been studied intensively over the last several decades and have many surprising applications in various fields. Many basic results are under the assumption that the volume of the space is finite, which is crucial as many basic ergodic theorems fail in the setting of an infinite measure space.In the talk we will discuss the infinite volume setting, and specifically, when can we expect horospherical orbits to equidistribute. Our goal will be to provide an effective equidistribution result, with polynomial rate, for horospherical orbits in the frame bundle of certain infinite volume hyperbolic manifolds. This is a joint work with Jacqueline Warren.<br />
<br />
===Tariq Osman===<br />
<br />
"Limit Theorems for Quadratic Weyl Sums"<br />
<br />
Consider exponential sums of the form $S_N(x, \alpha) := \sum_{n = 1}^{N}e(1/2 n^2 x + n\alpha)$, known as quadratic Weyl sums. We will use homogeneous dynamics to establish a limiting distribution for $\frac{1}{\sqrt N} |S_N(x, \alpha)|$, when $\alpha$ is a fixed rational, and $x$ is chosen uniformly from the unit interval. Time permitting, we will study the tails of the limiting distribution to show that this is not the central limit theorem in disguise. (This is joint work with Francesco Cellarosi)<br />
<br />
===Wenyu Pan===<br />
<br />
"Exponential mixing of geodesic flows for geometrically finite hyperbolic manifolds with cusps"<br />
<br />
Let $\mathbb{H}^n$ be the hyperbolic $n$-space and $\Gamma$ be a geometrically finite discrete subgroup in $\operatorname{Isom}_{+}(\mathbb{H}^n)$ with parabolic elements. In the joint work with Jialun LI, we establish exponential mixing of the geodesic flow over the unit tangent bundle $T^1(\Gamma\backslash \mathbb{H}^n)$ with respect to the Bowen-Margulis-Sullivan measure. Our approach is to construct coding for the geodesic flow and then prove a Dolgopyat-type spectral estimate for the corresponding transfer operator. In the talk, I am planning to explain the construction of the coding. I will also discuss the application of obtaining a resonance-free region for the resolvent on $\Gamma\backslash \mathbb{H}^n$.</div>Cwu367https://wiki.math.wisc.edu/index.php?title=Dynamics_Seminar_2020-2021&diff=20682Dynamics Seminar 2020-20212021-01-27T18:57:12Z<p>Cwu367: /* Spring 2021 */</p>
<hr />
<div>The [[Dynamics Seminar]] meets virtually on '''Wednesdays''' from '''2:30pm - 3:20pm'''.<br />
<br> <br />
For more information, contact Chenxi Wu.<br />
To sign up for the mailing list send an email from your wisc.edu address to dynamics+join@g-groups.wisc.edu<br />
<br />
The zoom login info is as follows:<br />
<br />
Join Zoom Meeting<br />
https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/93164776780?pwd=anE2Y3RhWk1VR0lDa0hnMzhPTTJEUT09<br />
<br />
Meeting ID: 931 6477 6780<br />
Passcode: 819612<br />
<br />
<br />
[[Image:Hawk.jpg|thumb|300px]]<br />
<br />
== Spring 2021 ==<br />
<br />
{| cellpadding="8"<br />
!align="left" | date<br />
!align="left" | speaker<br />
!align="left" | title<br />
!align="left" | host(s)<br />
|-<br />
|February 3<br />
|Daniel Woodhouse (Oxford)<br />
|TBA<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|February 10<br />
|John Mackay (Bristol)<br />
|TBA<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|February 17<br />
|Benjamin Branman (Wisconsin)<br />
|TBA<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|February 24<br />
|Uri Bader (Weizmann Institute)<br />
|TBA<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|March 3<br />
|Omri Sarig (Weizmann Institute)<br />
|TBA<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|March 10<br />
|Chris Leininger (Rice University)<br />
|TBA<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|March 17<br />
|Ethan Farber (Boston College)<br />
|TBA<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|March 31<br />
|Harrison Bray (George Mason)<br />
|TBA<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|April 28<br />
|Matt Bainbridge (Indiana)<br />
|TBA<br />
|}<br />
<br />
== Fall 2020 ==<br />
<br />
{| cellpadding="8"<br />
!align="left" | date<br />
!align="left" | speaker<br />
!align="left" | title<br />
!align="left" | host(s)<br />
|-<br />
|September 16<br />
|Andrew Zimmer (Wisconsin)<br />
|An introduction to Anosov representations I<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|September 23<br />
|Andrew Zimmer (Wisconsin)<br />
|An introduction to Anosov representations II<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|September 30<br />
|Chenxi Wu (Wisconsin)<br />
|Asymptoic translation lengths on curve complexes and free factor complexes<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|October 7<br />
|Kathryn Lindsey (Boston College)<br />
|Slices of Thurston's Master Teapot<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|October 14<br />
|Daniel Thompson (Ohio State)<br />
|Strong ergodic properties for equilibrium states in non-positive curvature<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|October 21<br />
|Giulio Tiozzo (Toronto)<br />
|Metrics on trees, laminations, and core entropy<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|October 28<br />
|No talk<br />
|No talk<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|November 4<br />
|Clark Butler (Princeton)<br />
|"Unbounded uniformizations of Grkmov hyperbolic spaces"<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|November 11<br />
|Subhadip Dey (Yale)<br />
|Patterson-Sullivan measures for Anosov subgroups<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|November 18<br />
|Nattalie Tamam (UCSD)<br />
|Effective equidistribution of horospherical flows in infinite volume<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|November 25<br />
|Tariq Osman (Queens)<br />
|Limit Theorems for Quadratic Weyl Sums<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|December 2<br />
|Wenyu Pan (Chicago)<br />
|Exponential mixing of geodesic flows for geometrically finite hyperbolic manifolds with cusps<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
== Fall Abstracts ==<br />
<br />
===Andrew Zimmer===<br />
<br />
"An introduction to Anosov representations"<br />
<br />
Anosov representations are a special class of representations of finitely generated groups into Lie groups, which are defined using ideas from dynamics (namely, the theory of Anosov flows). In this talk, I will explain the definition (in a special case), give some examples, and describe some properties. I will focus on the case of representations into the general linear group where no background knowledge about Lie groups is required.<br />
<br />
<br />
===Chenxi Wu===<br />
<br />
"Asymptotic translation lengths on curve complexes and free factor complexes"<br />
<br />
The curve complex of a closed surface is a simplicial complex where the vertices are simple closed curves up to isotopy and faces are curves that are disjoint, and an analogy for the curve complex in the setting of Out(F_n) is the free factor complex. A pseudo-Anosov map induces a map from the curve graph to itself, and a basic question is to study the asymptotic translation length which is known to be a non-zero rational number. I will review some prior results on the study of this asymptotic translation length, as well as some of their analogies in the setting of free factor complexes. The latter part is an ongoing project with Hyrungryul Baik and Dongryul Kim. [https://wuchenxi.github.io/graph.pdf Slides]<br />
<br />
<br />
===Kathryn Lindsey===<br />
<br />
"Slices of Thurston's Master Teapot"<br />
<br />
Thurston's Master Teapot is the closure of the set of all points $(z,\lambda) \in \mathbb{C} \times \mathbb{R}$ such that $\lambda$ is the growth rate of a critically periodic unimodal self-map of an interval and $z$ is a Galois conjugate of $\lambda$. I will present a new characterization of which points are in this set. This characterization gives a way to think of each horizontal slice of the Master Teapot as an analogy of the Mandelbrot set for a "restricted iterated function system." An application of this characterization is that the Master Teapot is not invariant under the map $(z,\lambda) \mapsto (-z,\lambda)$. This presentation is based on joint work with Chenxi Wu.<br />
<br />
<br />
===Daniel Thompson===<br />
<br />
"Strong ergodic properties for equilibrium states in non-positive curvature"<br />
<br />
Equilibrium states for geodesic flows over compact rank 1 manifolds and sufficiently regular potential functions were studied by Burns, Climenhaga, Fisher and myself. We showed that if the higher rank set does not carry full topological pressure then the equilibrium state is unique. In this talk, I will describe some recent results on the dynamical properties of these unique equilibrium states. We show that these equilibrium states have the Kolmogorov property (joint with Ben Call), and that approximations of the equilibrium states by regular closed geodesics asymptotically satisfy a type of Central Limit Theorem (joint with Tianyu Wang).<br />
<br />
===Giulio Tiozzo===<br />
<br />
"Metrics on trees, laminations, and core entropy"<br />
<br />
The notion of core entropy, defined as the entropy of the restriction to the Hubbard tree,<br />
was formulated by W. Thurston to produce a combinatorial invariant which captures the topological complexity of polynomial Julia sets and varies in a rich fractal way over parameter space.<br />
<br />
Core entropy has been so far defined by looking at a Markov partition on the tree, or by a combinatorial construction involving infinite graphs. We will introduce a new interpretation of core entropy based on metrics on trees and, dually, on transverse measures on laminations<br />
defining the Julia set.<br />
<br />
On the one hand, this will define a new notion of transverse measures on quadratic laminations, completing the analogy with laminations on surfaces on the “other side” of Sullivan’s dictionary.<br />
Moreover, this is also related to a question of Milnor on a piecewise-linear analogue of Thurston iteration on Teichmueller space.<br />
<br />
===Clark Butler===<br />
<br />
"Unbounded uniformizations of Grkmov hyperbolic spaces"<br />
<br />
In a fundamental work Bonk, Heinonen, and Koskela established a conformal correspondence between Gromov hyperbolic spaces and bounded uniform spaces (satisfying certain additional hypotheses) that generalized the classical conformal correspondence between the Euclidean unit disk and the hyperbolic plane. We prove a similar conformal correspondence between Gromov hyperbolic spaces and unbounded uniform spaces that extends the correspondence between the Euclidean upper half plane and the hyperbolic plane. Our primary application of this uniformization procedure is to extend a number of recent results of Bjorn-Bjorn-Shanmugalingam for Besov spaces on compact metric spaces to Besov spaces on proper metric spaces. These results are derived through a Patterson-Sullivan-esque construction by realizing certain measures on these metric spaces as the boundary values of measures on uniformized Gromov hyperbolic spaces having these metric spaces as their boundaries.<br />
<br />
===Subhadip Dey===<br />
<br />
"Patterson-Sullivan measures for Anosov subgroups"<br />
<br />
Patterson-Sullivan measures were introduced by Patterson (1976) and Sullivan (1979) to study the Kleinian groups and their limit sets. In this talk, we discuss an extension of this classical construction for $P$-Anosov subgroups $\Gamma$ of $G$, where $G$ is a real semisimple Lie group and $P<G$ is a parabolic subgroup. In parallel with the theory for Kleinian groups, we will discuss how one can understand the Hausdorff dimension of the limit set of $\Gamma$ in terms of a certain critical exponent. This is a joint work with Michael Kapovich.<br />
<br />
===Nattalie Tamam===<br />
<br />
"Effective equidistribution of horospherical flows in infinite volume"<br />
<br />
Horospherical flows in homogeneous spaces have been studied intensively over the last several decades and have many surprising applications in various fields. Many basic results are under the assumption that the volume of the space is finite, which is crucial as many basic ergodic theorems fail in the setting of an infinite measure space.In the talk we will discuss the infinite volume setting, and specifically, when can we expect horospherical orbits to equidistribute. Our goal will be to provide an effective equidistribution result, with polynomial rate, for horospherical orbits in the frame bundle of certain infinite volume hyperbolic manifolds. This is a joint work with Jacqueline Warren.<br />
<br />
===Tariq Osman===<br />
<br />
"Limit Theorems for Quadratic Weyl Sums"<br />
<br />
Consider exponential sums of the form $S_N(x, \alpha) := \sum_{n = 1}^{N}e(1/2 n^2 x + n\alpha)$, known as quadratic Weyl sums. We will use homogeneous dynamics to establish a limiting distribution for $\frac{1}{\sqrt N} |S_N(x, \alpha)|$, when $\alpha$ is a fixed rational, and $x$ is chosen uniformly from the unit interval. Time permitting, we will study the tails of the limiting distribution to show that this is not the central limit theorem in disguise. (This is joint work with Francesco Cellarosi)<br />
<br />
===Wenyu Pan===<br />
<br />
"Exponential mixing of geodesic flows for geometrically finite hyperbolic manifolds with cusps"<br />
<br />
Let $\mathbb{H}^n$ be the hyperbolic $n$-space and $\Gamma$ be a geometrically finite discrete subgroup in $\operatorname{Isom}_{+}(\mathbb{H}^n)$ with parabolic elements. In the joint work with Jialun LI, we establish exponential mixing of the geodesic flow over the unit tangent bundle $T^1(\Gamma\backslash \mathbb{H}^n)$ with respect to the Bowen-Margulis-Sullivan measure. Our approach is to construct coding for the geodesic flow and then prove a Dolgopyat-type spectral estimate for the corresponding transfer operator. In the talk, I am planning to explain the construction of the coding. I will also discuss the application of obtaining a resonance-free region for the resolvent on $\Gamma\backslash \mathbb{H}^n$.</div>Cwu367https://wiki.math.wisc.edu/index.php?title=Dynamics_Seminar_2020-2021&diff=20675Dynamics Seminar 2020-20212021-01-27T17:18:24Z<p>Cwu367: /* Spring 2021 */</p>
<hr />
<div>The [[Dynamics Seminar]] meets virtually on '''Wednesdays''' from '''2:30pm - 3:20pm'''.<br />
<br> <br />
For more information, contact Chenxi Wu.<br />
To sign up for the mailing list send an email from your wisc.edu address to dynamics+join@g-groups.wisc.edu<br />
<br />
The zoom login info is as follows:<br />
<br />
Join Zoom Meeting<br />
https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/93164776780?pwd=anE2Y3RhWk1VR0lDa0hnMzhPTTJEUT09<br />
<br />
Meeting ID: 931 6477 6780<br />
Passcode: 819612<br />
<br />
<br />
[[Image:Hawk.jpg|thumb|300px]]<br />
<br />
== Spring 2021 ==<br />
<br />
{| cellpadding="8"<br />
!align="left" | date<br />
!align="left" | speaker<br />
!align="left" | title<br />
!align="left" | host(s)<br />
|-<br />
|February 3<br />
|Daniel Woodhouse (Oxford)<br />
|TBA<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|February 10<br />
|John Mackay (Bristol)<br />
|TBA<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|February 17<br />
|Benjamin Branman (Wisconsin)<br />
|TBA<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|February 24<br />
|Uri Bader (Weizmann Institute)<br />
|TBA<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|March 3<br />
|Omri Sarig (Weizmann Institute)<br />
|TBA<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|March 10<br />
|Chris Leininger (Rice University)<br />
|TBA<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|March 17<br />
|Ethan Farber (Boston College)<br />
|TBA<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|April 28<br />
|Matt Bainbridge (Indiana)<br />
|TBA<br />
|}<br />
<br />
== Fall 2020 ==<br />
<br />
{| cellpadding="8"<br />
!align="left" | date<br />
!align="left" | speaker<br />
!align="left" | title<br />
!align="left" | host(s)<br />
|-<br />
|September 16<br />
|Andrew Zimmer (Wisconsin)<br />
|An introduction to Anosov representations I<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|September 23<br />
|Andrew Zimmer (Wisconsin)<br />
|An introduction to Anosov representations II<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|September 30<br />
|Chenxi Wu (Wisconsin)<br />
|Asymptoic translation lengths on curve complexes and free factor complexes<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|October 7<br />
|Kathryn Lindsey (Boston College)<br />
|Slices of Thurston's Master Teapot<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|October 14<br />
|Daniel Thompson (Ohio State)<br />
|Strong ergodic properties for equilibrium states in non-positive curvature<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|October 21<br />
|Giulio Tiozzo (Toronto)<br />
|Metrics on trees, laminations, and core entropy<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|October 28<br />
|No talk<br />
|No talk<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|November 4<br />
|Clark Butler (Princeton)<br />
|"Unbounded uniformizations of Grkmov hyperbolic spaces"<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|November 11<br />
|Subhadip Dey (Yale)<br />
|Patterson-Sullivan measures for Anosov subgroups<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|November 18<br />
|Nattalie Tamam (UCSD)<br />
|Effective equidistribution of horospherical flows in infinite volume<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|November 25<br />
|Tariq Osman (Queens)<br />
|Limit Theorems for Quadratic Weyl Sums<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|December 2<br />
|Wenyu Pan (Chicago)<br />
|Exponential mixing of geodesic flows for geometrically finite hyperbolic manifolds with cusps<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
== Fall Abstracts ==<br />
<br />
===Andrew Zimmer===<br />
<br />
"An introduction to Anosov representations"<br />
<br />
Anosov representations are a special class of representations of finitely generated groups into Lie groups, which are defined using ideas from dynamics (namely, the theory of Anosov flows). In this talk, I will explain the definition (in a special case), give some examples, and describe some properties. I will focus on the case of representations into the general linear group where no background knowledge about Lie groups is required.<br />
<br />
<br />
===Chenxi Wu===<br />
<br />
"Asymptotic translation lengths on curve complexes and free factor complexes"<br />
<br />
The curve complex of a closed surface is a simplicial complex where the vertices are simple closed curves up to isotopy and faces are curves that are disjoint, and an analogy for the curve complex in the setting of Out(F_n) is the free factor complex. A pseudo-Anosov map induces a map from the curve graph to itself, and a basic question is to study the asymptotic translation length which is known to be a non-zero rational number. I will review some prior results on the study of this asymptotic translation length, as well as some of their analogies in the setting of free factor complexes. The latter part is an ongoing project with Hyrungryul Baik and Dongryul Kim. [https://wuchenxi.github.io/graph.pdf Slides]<br />
<br />
<br />
===Kathryn Lindsey===<br />
<br />
"Slices of Thurston's Master Teapot"<br />
<br />
Thurston's Master Teapot is the closure of the set of all points $(z,\lambda) \in \mathbb{C} \times \mathbb{R}$ such that $\lambda$ is the growth rate of a critically periodic unimodal self-map of an interval and $z$ is a Galois conjugate of $\lambda$. I will present a new characterization of which points are in this set. This characterization gives a way to think of each horizontal slice of the Master Teapot as an analogy of the Mandelbrot set for a "restricted iterated function system." An application of this characterization is that the Master Teapot is not invariant under the map $(z,\lambda) \mapsto (-z,\lambda)$. This presentation is based on joint work with Chenxi Wu.<br />
<br />
<br />
===Daniel Thompson===<br />
<br />
"Strong ergodic properties for equilibrium states in non-positive curvature"<br />
<br />
Equilibrium states for geodesic flows over compact rank 1 manifolds and sufficiently regular potential functions were studied by Burns, Climenhaga, Fisher and myself. We showed that if the higher rank set does not carry full topological pressure then the equilibrium state is unique. In this talk, I will describe some recent results on the dynamical properties of these unique equilibrium states. We show that these equilibrium states have the Kolmogorov property (joint with Ben Call), and that approximations of the equilibrium states by regular closed geodesics asymptotically satisfy a type of Central Limit Theorem (joint with Tianyu Wang).<br />
<br />
===Giulio Tiozzo===<br />
<br />
"Metrics on trees, laminations, and core entropy"<br />
<br />
The notion of core entropy, defined as the entropy of the restriction to the Hubbard tree,<br />
was formulated by W. Thurston to produce a combinatorial invariant which captures the topological complexity of polynomial Julia sets and varies in a rich fractal way over parameter space.<br />
<br />
Core entropy has been so far defined by looking at a Markov partition on the tree, or by a combinatorial construction involving infinite graphs. We will introduce a new interpretation of core entropy based on metrics on trees and, dually, on transverse measures on laminations<br />
defining the Julia set.<br />
<br />
On the one hand, this will define a new notion of transverse measures on quadratic laminations, completing the analogy with laminations on surfaces on the “other side” of Sullivan’s dictionary.<br />
Moreover, this is also related to a question of Milnor on a piecewise-linear analogue of Thurston iteration on Teichmueller space.<br />
<br />
===Clark Butler===<br />
<br />
"Unbounded uniformizations of Grkmov hyperbolic spaces"<br />
<br />
In a fundamental work Bonk, Heinonen, and Koskela established a conformal correspondence between Gromov hyperbolic spaces and bounded uniform spaces (satisfying certain additional hypotheses) that generalized the classical conformal correspondence between the Euclidean unit disk and the hyperbolic plane. We prove a similar conformal correspondence between Gromov hyperbolic spaces and unbounded uniform spaces that extends the correspondence between the Euclidean upper half plane and the hyperbolic plane. Our primary application of this uniformization procedure is to extend a number of recent results of Bjorn-Bjorn-Shanmugalingam for Besov spaces on compact metric spaces to Besov spaces on proper metric spaces. These results are derived through a Patterson-Sullivan-esque construction by realizing certain measures on these metric spaces as the boundary values of measures on uniformized Gromov hyperbolic spaces having these metric spaces as their boundaries.<br />
<br />
===Subhadip Dey===<br />
<br />
"Patterson-Sullivan measures for Anosov subgroups"<br />
<br />
Patterson-Sullivan measures were introduced by Patterson (1976) and Sullivan (1979) to study the Kleinian groups and their limit sets. In this talk, we discuss an extension of this classical construction for $P$-Anosov subgroups $\Gamma$ of $G$, where $G$ is a real semisimple Lie group and $P<G$ is a parabolic subgroup. In parallel with the theory for Kleinian groups, we will discuss how one can understand the Hausdorff dimension of the limit set of $\Gamma$ in terms of a certain critical exponent. This is a joint work with Michael Kapovich.<br />
<br />
===Nattalie Tamam===<br />
<br />
"Effective equidistribution of horospherical flows in infinite volume"<br />
<br />
Horospherical flows in homogeneous spaces have been studied intensively over the last several decades and have many surprising applications in various fields. Many basic results are under the assumption that the volume of the space is finite, which is crucial as many basic ergodic theorems fail in the setting of an infinite measure space.In the talk we will discuss the infinite volume setting, and specifically, when can we expect horospherical orbits to equidistribute. Our goal will be to provide an effective equidistribution result, with polynomial rate, for horospherical orbits in the frame bundle of certain infinite volume hyperbolic manifolds. This is a joint work with Jacqueline Warren.<br />
<br />
===Tariq Osman===<br />
<br />
"Limit Theorems for Quadratic Weyl Sums"<br />
<br />
Consider exponential sums of the form $S_N(x, \alpha) := \sum_{n = 1}^{N}e(1/2 n^2 x + n\alpha)$, known as quadratic Weyl sums. We will use homogeneous dynamics to establish a limiting distribution for $\frac{1}{\sqrt N} |S_N(x, \alpha)|$, when $\alpha$ is a fixed rational, and $x$ is chosen uniformly from the unit interval. Time permitting, we will study the tails of the limiting distribution to show that this is not the central limit theorem in disguise. (This is joint work with Francesco Cellarosi)<br />
<br />
===Wenyu Pan===<br />
<br />
"Exponential mixing of geodesic flows for geometrically finite hyperbolic manifolds with cusps"<br />
<br />
Let $\mathbb{H}^n$ be the hyperbolic $n$-space and $\Gamma$ be a geometrically finite discrete subgroup in $\operatorname{Isom}_{+}(\mathbb{H}^n)$ with parabolic elements. In the joint work with Jialun LI, we establish exponential mixing of the geodesic flow over the unit tangent bundle $T^1(\Gamma\backslash \mathbb{H}^n)$ with respect to the Bowen-Margulis-Sullivan measure. Our approach is to construct coding for the geodesic flow and then prove a Dolgopyat-type spectral estimate for the corresponding transfer operator. In the talk, I am planning to explain the construction of the coding. I will also discuss the application of obtaining a resonance-free region for the resolvent on $\Gamma\backslash \mathbb{H}^n$.</div>Cwu367https://wiki.math.wisc.edu/index.php?title=Dynamics_Seminar_2020-2021&diff=20605Dynamics Seminar 2020-20212021-01-22T13:26:47Z<p>Cwu367: /* Spring 2021 */</p>
<hr />
<div>The [[Dynamics Seminar]] meets virtually on '''Wednesdays''' from '''2:30pm - 3:20pm'''.<br />
<br> <br />
For more information, contact Chenxi Wu.<br />
To sign up for the mailing list send an email from your wisc.edu address to dynamics+join@g-groups.wisc.edu<br />
<br />
The zoom login info is as follows:<br />
<br />
Join Zoom Meeting<br />
https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/93164776780?pwd=anE2Y3RhWk1VR0lDa0hnMzhPTTJEUT09<br />
<br />
Meeting ID: 931 6477 6780<br />
Passcode: 819612<br />
<br />
<br />
[[Image:Hawk.jpg|thumb|300px]]<br />
<br />
== Spring 2021 ==<br />
<br />
{| cellpadding="8"<br />
!align="left" | date<br />
!align="left" | speaker<br />
!align="left" | title<br />
!align="left" | host(s)<br />
|-<br />
|February 3<br />
|Daniel Woodhouse (Oxford)<br />
|TBA<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|February 10<br />
|John Mackay (Bristol)<br />
|TBA<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|February 17<br />
|Benjamin Branman (Wisconsin)<br />
|TBA<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|February 24<br />
|Uri Bader (Weizmann Institute)<br />
|TBA<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|March 3<br />
|Omri Sarig (Weizmann Institute)<br />
|TBA<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|April 28<br />
|Matt Bainbridge (Indiana)<br />
|TBA<br />
|}<br />
<br />
== Fall 2020 ==<br />
<br />
{| cellpadding="8"<br />
!align="left" | date<br />
!align="left" | speaker<br />
!align="left" | title<br />
!align="left" | host(s)<br />
|-<br />
|September 16<br />
|Andrew Zimmer (Wisconsin)<br />
|An introduction to Anosov representations I<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|September 23<br />
|Andrew Zimmer (Wisconsin)<br />
|An introduction to Anosov representations II<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|September 30<br />
|Chenxi Wu (Wisconsin)<br />
|Asymptoic translation lengths on curve complexes and free factor complexes<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|October 7<br />
|Kathryn Lindsey (Boston College)<br />
|Slices of Thurston's Master Teapot<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|October 14<br />
|Daniel Thompson (Ohio State)<br />
|Strong ergodic properties for equilibrium states in non-positive curvature<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|October 21<br />
|Giulio Tiozzo (Toronto)<br />
|Metrics on trees, laminations, and core entropy<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|October 28<br />
|No talk<br />
|No talk<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|November 4<br />
|Clark Butler (Princeton)<br />
|"Unbounded uniformizations of Grkmov hyperbolic spaces"<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|November 11<br />
|Subhadip Dey (Yale)<br />
|Patterson-Sullivan measures for Anosov subgroups<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|November 18<br />
|Nattalie Tamam (UCSD)<br />
|Effective equidistribution of horospherical flows in infinite volume<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|November 25<br />
|Tariq Osman (Queens)<br />
|Limit Theorems for Quadratic Weyl Sums<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|December 2<br />
|Wenyu Pan (Chicago)<br />
|Exponential mixing of geodesic flows for geometrically finite hyperbolic manifolds with cusps<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
== Fall Abstracts ==<br />
<br />
===Andrew Zimmer===<br />
<br />
"An introduction to Anosov representations"<br />
<br />
Anosov representations are a special class of representations of finitely generated groups into Lie groups, which are defined using ideas from dynamics (namely, the theory of Anosov flows). In this talk, I will explain the definition (in a special case), give some examples, and describe some properties. I will focus on the case of representations into the general linear group where no background knowledge about Lie groups is required.<br />
<br />
<br />
===Chenxi Wu===<br />
<br />
"Asymptotic translation lengths on curve complexes and free factor complexes"<br />
<br />
The curve complex of a closed surface is a simplicial complex where the vertices are simple closed curves up to isotopy and faces are curves that are disjoint, and an analogy for the curve complex in the setting of Out(F_n) is the free factor complex. A pseudo-Anosov map induces a map from the curve graph to itself, and a basic question is to study the asymptotic translation length which is known to be a non-zero rational number. I will review some prior results on the study of this asymptotic translation length, as well as some of their analogies in the setting of free factor complexes. The latter part is an ongoing project with Hyrungryul Baik and Dongryul Kim. [https://wuchenxi.github.io/graph.pdf Slides]<br />
<br />
<br />
===Kathryn Lindsey===<br />
<br />
"Slices of Thurston's Master Teapot"<br />
<br />
Thurston's Master Teapot is the closure of the set of all points $(z,\lambda) \in \mathbb{C} \times \mathbb{R}$ such that $\lambda$ is the growth rate of a critically periodic unimodal self-map of an interval and $z$ is a Galois conjugate of $\lambda$. I will present a new characterization of which points are in this set. This characterization gives a way to think of each horizontal slice of the Master Teapot as an analogy of the Mandelbrot set for a "restricted iterated function system." An application of this characterization is that the Master Teapot is not invariant under the map $(z,\lambda) \mapsto (-z,\lambda)$. This presentation is based on joint work with Chenxi Wu.<br />
<br />
<br />
===Daniel Thompson===<br />
<br />
"Strong ergodic properties for equilibrium states in non-positive curvature"<br />
<br />
Equilibrium states for geodesic flows over compact rank 1 manifolds and sufficiently regular potential functions were studied by Burns, Climenhaga, Fisher and myself. We showed that if the higher rank set does not carry full topological pressure then the equilibrium state is unique. In this talk, I will describe some recent results on the dynamical properties of these unique equilibrium states. We show that these equilibrium states have the Kolmogorov property (joint with Ben Call), and that approximations of the equilibrium states by regular closed geodesics asymptotically satisfy a type of Central Limit Theorem (joint with Tianyu Wang).<br />
<br />
===Giulio Tiozzo===<br />
<br />
"Metrics on trees, laminations, and core entropy"<br />
<br />
The notion of core entropy, defined as the entropy of the restriction to the Hubbard tree,<br />
was formulated by W. Thurston to produce a combinatorial invariant which captures the topological complexity of polynomial Julia sets and varies in a rich fractal way over parameter space.<br />
<br />
Core entropy has been so far defined by looking at a Markov partition on the tree, or by a combinatorial construction involving infinite graphs. We will introduce a new interpretation of core entropy based on metrics on trees and, dually, on transverse measures on laminations<br />
defining the Julia set.<br />
<br />
On the one hand, this will define a new notion of transverse measures on quadratic laminations, completing the analogy with laminations on surfaces on the “other side” of Sullivan’s dictionary.<br />
Moreover, this is also related to a question of Milnor on a piecewise-linear analogue of Thurston iteration on Teichmueller space.<br />
<br />
===Clark Butler===<br />
<br />
"Unbounded uniformizations of Grkmov hyperbolic spaces"<br />
<br />
In a fundamental work Bonk, Heinonen, and Koskela established a conformal correspondence between Gromov hyperbolic spaces and bounded uniform spaces (satisfying certain additional hypotheses) that generalized the classical conformal correspondence between the Euclidean unit disk and the hyperbolic plane. We prove a similar conformal correspondence between Gromov hyperbolic spaces and unbounded uniform spaces that extends the correspondence between the Euclidean upper half plane and the hyperbolic plane. Our primary application of this uniformization procedure is to extend a number of recent results of Bjorn-Bjorn-Shanmugalingam for Besov spaces on compact metric spaces to Besov spaces on proper metric spaces. These results are derived through a Patterson-Sullivan-esque construction by realizing certain measures on these metric spaces as the boundary values of measures on uniformized Gromov hyperbolic spaces having these metric spaces as their boundaries.<br />
<br />
===Subhadip Dey===<br />
<br />
"Patterson-Sullivan measures for Anosov subgroups"<br />
<br />
Patterson-Sullivan measures were introduced by Patterson (1976) and Sullivan (1979) to study the Kleinian groups and their limit sets. In this talk, we discuss an extension of this classical construction for $P$-Anosov subgroups $\Gamma$ of $G$, where $G$ is a real semisimple Lie group and $P<G$ is a parabolic subgroup. In parallel with the theory for Kleinian groups, we will discuss how one can understand the Hausdorff dimension of the limit set of $\Gamma$ in terms of a certain critical exponent. This is a joint work with Michael Kapovich.<br />
<br />
===Nattalie Tamam===<br />
<br />
"Effective equidistribution of horospherical flows in infinite volume"<br />
<br />
Horospherical flows in homogeneous spaces have been studied intensively over the last several decades and have many surprising applications in various fields. Many basic results are under the assumption that the volume of the space is finite, which is crucial as many basic ergodic theorems fail in the setting of an infinite measure space.In the talk we will discuss the infinite volume setting, and specifically, when can we expect horospherical orbits to equidistribute. Our goal will be to provide an effective equidistribution result, with polynomial rate, for horospherical orbits in the frame bundle of certain infinite volume hyperbolic manifolds. This is a joint work with Jacqueline Warren.<br />
<br />
===Tariq Osman===<br />
<br />
"Limit Theorems for Quadratic Weyl Sums"<br />
<br />
Consider exponential sums of the form $S_N(x, \alpha) := \sum_{n = 1}^{N}e(1/2 n^2 x + n\alpha)$, known as quadratic Weyl sums. We will use homogeneous dynamics to establish a limiting distribution for $\frac{1}{\sqrt N} |S_N(x, \alpha)|$, when $\alpha$ is a fixed rational, and $x$ is chosen uniformly from the unit interval. Time permitting, we will study the tails of the limiting distribution to show that this is not the central limit theorem in disguise. (This is joint work with Francesco Cellarosi)<br />
<br />
===Wenyu Pan===<br />
<br />
"Exponential mixing of geodesic flows for geometrically finite hyperbolic manifolds with cusps"<br />
<br />
Let $\mathbb{H}^n$ be the hyperbolic $n$-space and $\Gamma$ be a geometrically finite discrete subgroup in $\operatorname{Isom}_{+}(\mathbb{H}^n)$ with parabolic elements. In the joint work with Jialun LI, we establish exponential mixing of the geodesic flow over the unit tangent bundle $T^1(\Gamma\backslash \mathbb{H}^n)$ with respect to the Bowen-Margulis-Sullivan measure. Our approach is to construct coding for the geodesic flow and then prove a Dolgopyat-type spectral estimate for the corresponding transfer operator. In the talk, I am planning to explain the construction of the coding. I will also discuss the application of obtaining a resonance-free region for the resolvent on $\Gamma\backslash \mathbb{H}^n$.</div>Cwu367https://wiki.math.wisc.edu/index.php?title=Dynamics_Seminar_2020-2021&diff=20411Dynamics Seminar 2020-20212020-12-01T19:51:56Z<p>Cwu367: /* Fall Abstracts */</p>
<hr />
<div>The [[Dynamics Seminar]] meets virtually on '''Wednesdays''' from '''2:30pm - 3:20pm'''.<br />
<br> <br />
For more information, contact Chenxi Wu.<br />
To sign up for the mailing list send an email from your wisc.edu address to dynamics+join@g-groups.wisc.edu<br />
<br />
The zoom login info is as follows:<br />
<br />
Join Zoom Meeting<br />
https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/93164776780?pwd=anE2Y3RhWk1VR0lDa0hnMzhPTTJEUT09<br />
<br />
Meeting ID: 931 6477 6780<br />
Passcode: 819612<br />
<br />
<br />
[[Image:Hawk.jpg|thumb|300px]]<br />
<br />
<br />
== Fall 2020 ==<br />
<br />
{| cellpadding="8"<br />
!align="left" | date<br />
!align="left" | speaker<br />
!align="left" | title<br />
!align="left" | host(s)<br />
|-<br />
|September 16<br />
|Andrew Zimmer (Wisconsin)<br />
|An introduction to Anosov representations I<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|September 23<br />
|Andrew Zimmer (Wisconsin)<br />
|An introduction to Anosov representations II<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|September 30<br />
|Chenxi Wu (Wisconsin)<br />
|Asymptoic translation lengths on curve complexes and free factor complexes<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|October 7<br />
|Kathryn Lindsey (Boston College)<br />
|Slices of Thurston's Master Teapot<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|October 14<br />
|Daniel Thompson (Ohio State)<br />
|Strong ergodic properties for equilibrium states in non-positive curvature<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|October 21<br />
|Giulio Tiozzo (Toronto)<br />
|Metrics on trees, laminations, and core entropy<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|October 28<br />
|No talk<br />
|No talk<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|November 4<br />
|Clark Butler (Princeton)<br />
|"Unbounded uniformizations of Grkmov hyperbolic spaces"<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|November 11<br />
|Subhadip Dey (Yale)<br />
|Patterson-Sullivan measures for Anosov subgroups<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|November 18<br />
|Nattalie Tamam (UCSD)<br />
|Effective equidistribution of horospherical flows in infinite volume<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|November 25<br />
|Tariq Osman (Queens)<br />
|Limit Theorems for Quadratic Weyl Sums<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|December 2<br />
|Wenyu Pan (Chicago)<br />
|Exponential mixing of geodesic flows for geometrically finite hyperbolic manifolds with cusps<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
== Fall Abstracts ==<br />
<br />
===Andrew Zimmer===<br />
<br />
"An introduction to Anosov representations"<br />
<br />
Anosov representations are a special class of representations of finitely generated groups into Lie groups, which are defined using ideas from dynamics (namely, the theory of Anosov flows). In this talk, I will explain the definition (in a special case), give some examples, and describe some properties. I will focus on the case of representations into the general linear group where no background knowledge about Lie groups is required.<br />
<br />
<br />
===Chenxi Wu===<br />
<br />
"Asymptotic translation lengths on curve complexes and free factor complexes"<br />
<br />
The curve complex of a closed surface is a simplicial complex where the vertices are simple closed curves up to isotopy and faces are curves that are disjoint, and an analogy for the curve complex in the setting of Out(F_n) is the free factor complex. A pseudo-Anosov map induces a map from the curve graph to itself, and a basic question is to study the asymptotic translation length which is known to be a non-zero rational number. I will review some prior results on the study of this asymptotic translation length, as well as some of their analogies in the setting of free factor complexes. The latter part is an ongoing project with Hyrungryul Baik and Dongryul Kim. [https://wuchenxi.github.io/graph.pdf Slides]<br />
<br />
<br />
===Kathryn Lindsey===<br />
<br />
"Slices of Thurston's Master Teapot"<br />
<br />
Thurston's Master Teapot is the closure of the set of all points $(z,\lambda) \in \mathbb{C} \times \mathbb{R}$ such that $\lambda$ is the growth rate of a critically periodic unimodal self-map of an interval and $z$ is a Galois conjugate of $\lambda$. I will present a new characterization of which points are in this set. This characterization gives a way to think of each horizontal slice of the Master Teapot as an analogy of the Mandelbrot set for a "restricted iterated function system." An application of this characterization is that the Master Teapot is not invariant under the map $(z,\lambda) \mapsto (-z,\lambda)$. This presentation is based on joint work with Chenxi Wu.<br />
<br />
<br />
===Daniel Thompson===<br />
<br />
"Strong ergodic properties for equilibrium states in non-positive curvature"<br />
<br />
Equilibrium states for geodesic flows over compact rank 1 manifolds and sufficiently regular potential functions were studied by Burns, Climenhaga, Fisher and myself. We showed that if the higher rank set does not carry full topological pressure then the equilibrium state is unique. In this talk, I will describe some recent results on the dynamical properties of these unique equilibrium states. We show that these equilibrium states have the Kolmogorov property (joint with Ben Call), and that approximations of the equilibrium states by regular closed geodesics asymptotically satisfy a type of Central Limit Theorem (joint with Tianyu Wang).<br />
<br />
===Giulio Tiozzo===<br />
<br />
"Metrics on trees, laminations, and core entropy"<br />
<br />
The notion of core entropy, defined as the entropy of the restriction to the Hubbard tree,<br />
was formulated by W. Thurston to produce a combinatorial invariant which captures the topological complexity of polynomial Julia sets and varies in a rich fractal way over parameter space.<br />
<br />
Core entropy has been so far defined by looking at a Markov partition on the tree, or by a combinatorial construction involving infinite graphs. We will introduce a new interpretation of core entropy based on metrics on trees and, dually, on transverse measures on laminations<br />
defining the Julia set.<br />
<br />
On the one hand, this will define a new notion of transverse measures on quadratic laminations, completing the analogy with laminations on surfaces on the “other side” of Sullivan’s dictionary.<br />
Moreover, this is also related to a question of Milnor on a piecewise-linear analogue of Thurston iteration on Teichmueller space.<br />
<br />
===Clark Butler===<br />
<br />
"Unbounded uniformizations of Grkmov hyperbolic spaces"<br />
<br />
In a fundamental work Bonk, Heinonen, and Koskela established a conformal correspondence between Gromov hyperbolic spaces and bounded uniform spaces (satisfying certain additional hypotheses) that generalized the classical conformal correspondence between the Euclidean unit disk and the hyperbolic plane. We prove a similar conformal correspondence between Gromov hyperbolic spaces and unbounded uniform spaces that extends the correspondence between the Euclidean upper half plane and the hyperbolic plane. Our primary application of this uniformization procedure is to extend a number of recent results of Bjorn-Bjorn-Shanmugalingam for Besov spaces on compact metric spaces to Besov spaces on proper metric spaces. These results are derived through a Patterson-Sullivan-esque construction by realizing certain measures on these metric spaces as the boundary values of measures on uniformized Gromov hyperbolic spaces having these metric spaces as their boundaries.<br />
<br />
===Subhadip Dey===<br />
<br />
"Patterson-Sullivan measures for Anosov subgroups"<br />
<br />
Patterson-Sullivan measures were introduced by Patterson (1976) and Sullivan (1979) to study the Kleinian groups and their limit sets. In this talk, we discuss an extension of this classical construction for $P$-Anosov subgroups $\Gamma$ of $G$, where $G$ is a real semisimple Lie group and $P<G$ is a parabolic subgroup. In parallel with the theory for Kleinian groups, we will discuss how one can understand the Hausdorff dimension of the limit set of $\Gamma$ in terms of a certain critical exponent. This is a joint work with Michael Kapovich.<br />
<br />
===Nattalie Tamam===<br />
<br />
"Effective equidistribution of horospherical flows in infinite volume"<br />
<br />
Horospherical flows in homogeneous spaces have been studied intensively over the last several decades and have many surprising applications in various fields. Many basic results are under the assumption that the volume of the space is finite, which is crucial as many basic ergodic theorems fail in the setting of an infinite measure space.In the talk we will discuss the infinite volume setting, and specifically, when can we expect horospherical orbits to equidistribute. Our goal will be to provide an effective equidistribution result, with polynomial rate, for horospherical orbits in the frame bundle of certain infinite volume hyperbolic manifolds. This is a joint work with Jacqueline Warren.<br />
<br />
===Tariq Osman===<br />
<br />
"Limit Theorems for Quadratic Weyl Sums"<br />
<br />
Consider exponential sums of the form $S_N(x, \alpha) := \sum_{n = 1}^{N}e(1/2 n^2 x + n\alpha)$, known as quadratic Weyl sums. We will use homogeneous dynamics to establish a limiting distribution for $\frac{1}{\sqrt N} |S_N(x, \alpha)|$, when $\alpha$ is a fixed rational, and $x$ is chosen uniformly from the unit interval. Time permitting, we will study the tails of the limiting distribution to show that this is not the central limit theorem in disguise. (This is joint work with Francesco Cellarosi)<br />
<br />
===Wenyu Pan===<br />
<br />
"Exponential mixing of geodesic flows for geometrically finite hyperbolic manifolds with cusps"<br />
<br />
Let $\mathbb{H}^n$ be the hyperbolic $n$-space and $\Gamma$ be a geometrically finite discrete subgroup in $\operatorname{Isom}_{+}(\mathbb{H}^n)$ with parabolic elements. In the joint work with Jialun LI, we establish exponential mixing of the geodesic flow over the unit tangent bundle $T^1(\Gamma\backslash \mathbb{H}^n)$ with respect to the Bowen-Margulis-Sullivan measure. Our approach is to construct coding for the geodesic flow and then prove a Dolgopyat-type spectral estimate for the corresponding transfer operator. In the talk, I am planning to explain the construction of the coding. I will also discuss the application of obtaining a resonance-free region for the resolvent on $\Gamma\backslash \mathbb{H}^n$.</div>Cwu367https://wiki.math.wisc.edu/index.php?title=Dynamics_Seminar_2020-2021&diff=20410Dynamics Seminar 2020-20212020-12-01T19:50:56Z<p>Cwu367: /* Fall 2020 */</p>
<hr />
<div>The [[Dynamics Seminar]] meets virtually on '''Wednesdays''' from '''2:30pm - 3:20pm'''.<br />
<br> <br />
For more information, contact Chenxi Wu.<br />
To sign up for the mailing list send an email from your wisc.edu address to dynamics+join@g-groups.wisc.edu<br />
<br />
The zoom login info is as follows:<br />
<br />
Join Zoom Meeting<br />
https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/93164776780?pwd=anE2Y3RhWk1VR0lDa0hnMzhPTTJEUT09<br />
<br />
Meeting ID: 931 6477 6780<br />
Passcode: 819612<br />
<br />
<br />
[[Image:Hawk.jpg|thumb|300px]]<br />
<br />
<br />
== Fall 2020 ==<br />
<br />
{| cellpadding="8"<br />
!align="left" | date<br />
!align="left" | speaker<br />
!align="left" | title<br />
!align="left" | host(s)<br />
|-<br />
|September 16<br />
|Andrew Zimmer (Wisconsin)<br />
|An introduction to Anosov representations I<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|September 23<br />
|Andrew Zimmer (Wisconsin)<br />
|An introduction to Anosov representations II<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|September 30<br />
|Chenxi Wu (Wisconsin)<br />
|Asymptoic translation lengths on curve complexes and free factor complexes<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|October 7<br />
|Kathryn Lindsey (Boston College)<br />
|Slices of Thurston's Master Teapot<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|October 14<br />
|Daniel Thompson (Ohio State)<br />
|Strong ergodic properties for equilibrium states in non-positive curvature<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|October 21<br />
|Giulio Tiozzo (Toronto)<br />
|Metrics on trees, laminations, and core entropy<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|October 28<br />
|No talk<br />
|No talk<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|November 4<br />
|Clark Butler (Princeton)<br />
|"Unbounded uniformizations of Grkmov hyperbolic spaces"<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|November 11<br />
|Subhadip Dey (Yale)<br />
|Patterson-Sullivan measures for Anosov subgroups<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|November 18<br />
|Nattalie Tamam (UCSD)<br />
|Effective equidistribution of horospherical flows in infinite volume<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|November 25<br />
|Tariq Osman (Queens)<br />
|Limit Theorems for Quadratic Weyl Sums<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|December 2<br />
|Wenyu Pan (Chicago)<br />
|Exponential mixing of geodesic flows for geometrically finite hyperbolic manifolds with cusps<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
== Fall Abstracts ==<br />
<br />
===Andrew Zimmer===<br />
<br />
"An introduction to Anosov representations"<br />
<br />
Anosov representations are a special class of representations of finitely generated groups into Lie groups, which are defined using ideas from dynamics (namely, the theory of Anosov flows). In this talk, I will explain the definition (in a special case), give some examples, and describe some properties. I will focus on the case of representations into the general linear group where no background knowledge about Lie groups is required.<br />
<br />
<br />
===Chenxi Wu===<br />
<br />
"Asymptotic translation lengths on curve complexes and free factor complexes"<br />
<br />
The curve complex of a closed surface is a simplicial complex where the vertices are simple closed curves up to isotopy and faces are curves that are disjoint, and an analogy for the curve complex in the setting of Out(F_n) is the free factor complex. A pseudo-Anosov map induces a map from the curve graph to itself, and a basic question is to study the asymptotic translation length which is known to be a non-zero rational number. I will review some prior results on the study of this asymptotic translation length, as well as some of their analogies in the setting of free factor complexes. The latter part is an ongoing project with Hyrungryul Baik and Dongryul Kim. [https://wuchenxi.github.io/graph.pdf Slides]<br />
<br />
<br />
===Kathryn Lindsey===<br />
<br />
"Slices of Thurston's Master Teapot"<br />
<br />
Thurston's Master Teapot is the closure of the set of all points $(z,\lambda) \in \mathbb{C} \times \mathbb{R}$ such that $\lambda$ is the growth rate of a critically periodic unimodal self-map of an interval and $z$ is a Galois conjugate of $\lambda$. I will present a new characterization of which points are in this set. This characterization gives a way to think of each horizontal slice of the Master Teapot as an analogy of the Mandelbrot set for a "restricted iterated function system." An application of this characterization is that the Master Teapot is not invariant under the map $(z,\lambda) \mapsto (-z,\lambda)$. This presentation is based on joint work with Chenxi Wu.<br />
<br />
<br />
===Daniel Thompson===<br />
<br />
"Strong ergodic properties for equilibrium states in non-positive curvature"<br />
<br />
Equilibrium states for geodesic flows over compact rank 1 manifolds and sufficiently regular potential functions were studied by Burns, Climenhaga, Fisher and myself. We showed that if the higher rank set does not carry full topological pressure then the equilibrium state is unique. In this talk, I will describe some recent results on the dynamical properties of these unique equilibrium states. We show that these equilibrium states have the Kolmogorov property (joint with Ben Call), and that approximations of the equilibrium states by regular closed geodesics asymptotically satisfy a type of Central Limit Theorem (joint with Tianyu Wang).<br />
<br />
===Giulio Tiozzo===<br />
<br />
"Metrics on trees, laminations, and core entropy"<br />
<br />
The notion of core entropy, defined as the entropy of the restriction to the Hubbard tree,<br />
was formulated by W. Thurston to produce a combinatorial invariant which captures the topological complexity of polynomial Julia sets and varies in a rich fractal way over parameter space.<br />
<br />
Core entropy has been so far defined by looking at a Markov partition on the tree, or by a combinatorial construction involving infinite graphs. We will introduce a new interpretation of core entropy based on metrics on trees and, dually, on transverse measures on laminations<br />
defining the Julia set.<br />
<br />
On the one hand, this will define a new notion of transverse measures on quadratic laminations, completing the analogy with laminations on surfaces on the “other side” of Sullivan’s dictionary.<br />
Moreover, this is also related to a question of Milnor on a piecewise-linear analogue of Thurston iteration on Teichmueller space.<br />
<br />
===Clark Butler===<br />
<br />
"Unbounded uniformizations of Grkmov hyperbolic spaces"<br />
<br />
In a fundamental work Bonk, Heinonen, and Koskela established a conformal correspondence between Gromov hyperbolic spaces and bounded uniform spaces (satisfying certain additional hypotheses) that generalized the classical conformal correspondence between the Euclidean unit disk and the hyperbolic plane. We prove a similar conformal correspondence between Gromov hyperbolic spaces and unbounded uniform spaces that extends the correspondence between the Euclidean upper half plane and the hyperbolic plane. Our primary application of this uniformization procedure is to extend a number of recent results of Bjorn-Bjorn-Shanmugalingam for Besov spaces on compact metric spaces to Besov spaces on proper metric spaces. These results are derived through a Patterson-Sullivan-esque construction by realizing certain measures on these metric spaces as the boundary values of measures on uniformized Gromov hyperbolic spaces having these metric spaces as their boundaries.<br />
<br />
===Subhadip Dey===<br />
<br />
"Patterson-Sullivan measures for Anosov subgroups"<br />
<br />
Patterson-Sullivan measures were introduced by Patterson (1976) and Sullivan (1979) to study the Kleinian groups and their limit sets. In this talk, we discuss an extension of this classical construction for $P$-Anosov subgroups $\Gamma$ of $G$, where $G$ is a real semisimple Lie group and $P<G$ is a parabolic subgroup. In parallel with the theory for Kleinian groups, we will discuss how one can understand the Hausdorff dimension of the limit set of $\Gamma$ in terms of a certain critical exponent. This is a joint work with Michael Kapovich.<br />
<br />
===Nattalie Tamam===<br />
<br />
"Effective equidistribution of horospherical flows in infinite volume"<br />
<br />
Horospherical flows in homogeneous spaces have been studied intensively over the last several decades and have many surprising applications in various fields. Many basic results are under the assumption that the volume of the space is finite, which is crucial as many basic ergodic theorems fail in the setting of an infinite measure space.In the talk we will discuss the infinite volume setting, and specifically, when can we expect horospherical orbits to equidistribute. Our goal will be to provide an effective equidistribution result, with polynomial rate, for horospherical orbits in the frame bundle of certain infinite volume hyperbolic manifolds. This is a joint work with Jacqueline Warren.<br />
<br />
===Tariq Osman===<br />
<br />
"Limit Theorems for Quadratic Weyl Sums"<br />
<br />
Consider exponential sums of the form $S_N(x, \alpha) := \sum_{n = 1}^{N}e(1/2 n^2 x + n\alpha)$, known as quadratic Weyl sums. We will use homogeneous dynamics to establish a limiting distribution for $\frac{1}{\sqrt N} |S_N(x, \alpha)|$, when $\alpha$ is a fixed rational, and $x$ is chosen uniformly from the unit interval. Time permitting, we will study the tails of the limiting distribution to show that this is not the central limit theorem in disguise. (This is joint work with Francesco Cellarosi)</div>Cwu367https://wiki.math.wisc.edu/index.php?title=Dynamics_Seminar_2020-2021&diff=20384Dynamics Seminar 2020-20212020-11-24T21:05:39Z<p>Cwu367: /* Fall 2020 */</p>
<hr />
<div>The [[Dynamics Seminar]] meets virtually on '''Wednesdays''' from '''2:30pm - 3:20pm'''.<br />
<br> <br />
For more information, contact Chenxi Wu.<br />
To sign up for the mailing list send an email from your wisc.edu address to dynamics+join@g-groups.wisc.edu<br />
<br />
The zoom login info is as follows:<br />
<br />
Join Zoom Meeting<br />
https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/93164776780?pwd=anE2Y3RhWk1VR0lDa0hnMzhPTTJEUT09<br />
<br />
Meeting ID: 931 6477 6780<br />
Passcode: 819612<br />
<br />
<br />
[[Image:Hawk.jpg|thumb|300px]]<br />
<br />
<br />
== Fall 2020 ==<br />
<br />
{| cellpadding="8"<br />
!align="left" | date<br />
!align="left" | speaker<br />
!align="left" | title<br />
!align="left" | host(s)<br />
|-<br />
|September 16<br />
|Andrew Zimmer (Wisconsin)<br />
|An introduction to Anosov representations I<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|September 23<br />
|Andrew Zimmer (Wisconsin)<br />
|An introduction to Anosov representations II<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|September 30<br />
|Chenxi Wu (Wisconsin)<br />
|Asymptoic translation lengths on curve complexes and free factor complexes<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|October 7<br />
|Kathryn Lindsey (Boston College)<br />
|Slices of Thurston's Master Teapot<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|October 14<br />
|Daniel Thompson (Ohio State)<br />
|Strong ergodic properties for equilibrium states in non-positive curvature<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|October 21<br />
|Giulio Tiozzo (Toronto)<br />
|Metrics on trees, laminations, and core entropy<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|October 28<br />
|No talk<br />
|No talk<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|November 4<br />
|Clark Butler (Princeton)<br />
|"Unbounded uniformizations of Grkmov hyperbolic spaces"<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|November 11<br />
|Subhadip Dey (Yale)<br />
|Patterson-Sullivan measures for Anosov subgroups<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|November 18<br />
|Nattalie Tamam (UCSD)<br />
|Effective equidistribution of horospherical flows in infinite volume<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|November 25<br />
|Tariq Osman (Queens)<br />
|Limit Theorems for Quadratic Weyl Sums<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|December 2<br />
|Wenyu Pan (Chicago)<br />
|TBA<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
== Fall Abstracts ==<br />
<br />
===Andrew Zimmer===<br />
<br />
"An introduction to Anosov representations"<br />
<br />
Anosov representations are a special class of representations of finitely generated groups into Lie groups, which are defined using ideas from dynamics (namely, the theory of Anosov flows). In this talk, I will explain the definition (in a special case), give some examples, and describe some properties. I will focus on the case of representations into the general linear group where no background knowledge about Lie groups is required.<br />
<br />
<br />
===Chenxi Wu===<br />
<br />
"Asymptotic translation lengths on curve complexes and free factor complexes"<br />
<br />
The curve complex of a closed surface is a simplicial complex where the vertices are simple closed curves up to isotopy and faces are curves that are disjoint, and an analogy for the curve complex in the setting of Out(F_n) is the free factor complex. A pseudo-Anosov map induces a map from the curve graph to itself, and a basic question is to study the asymptotic translation length which is known to be a non-zero rational number. I will review some prior results on the study of this asymptotic translation length, as well as some of their analogies in the setting of free factor complexes. The latter part is an ongoing project with Hyrungryul Baik and Dongryul Kim. [https://wuchenxi.github.io/graph.pdf Slides]<br />
<br />
<br />
===Kathryn Lindsey===<br />
<br />
"Slices of Thurston's Master Teapot"<br />
<br />
Thurston's Master Teapot is the closure of the set of all points $(z,\lambda) \in \mathbb{C} \times \mathbb{R}$ such that $\lambda$ is the growth rate of a critically periodic unimodal self-map of an interval and $z$ is a Galois conjugate of $\lambda$. I will present a new characterization of which points are in this set. This characterization gives a way to think of each horizontal slice of the Master Teapot as an analogy of the Mandelbrot set for a "restricted iterated function system." An application of this characterization is that the Master Teapot is not invariant under the map $(z,\lambda) \mapsto (-z,\lambda)$. This presentation is based on joint work with Chenxi Wu.<br />
<br />
<br />
===Daniel Thompson===<br />
<br />
"Strong ergodic properties for equilibrium states in non-positive curvature"<br />
<br />
Equilibrium states for geodesic flows over compact rank 1 manifolds and sufficiently regular potential functions were studied by Burns, Climenhaga, Fisher and myself. We showed that if the higher rank set does not carry full topological pressure then the equilibrium state is unique. In this talk, I will describe some recent results on the dynamical properties of these unique equilibrium states. We show that these equilibrium states have the Kolmogorov property (joint with Ben Call), and that approximations of the equilibrium states by regular closed geodesics asymptotically satisfy a type of Central Limit Theorem (joint with Tianyu Wang).<br />
<br />
===Giulio Tiozzo===<br />
<br />
"Metrics on trees, laminations, and core entropy"<br />
<br />
The notion of core entropy, defined as the entropy of the restriction to the Hubbard tree,<br />
was formulated by W. Thurston to produce a combinatorial invariant which captures the topological complexity of polynomial Julia sets and varies in a rich fractal way over parameter space.<br />
<br />
Core entropy has been so far defined by looking at a Markov partition on the tree, or by a combinatorial construction involving infinite graphs. We will introduce a new interpretation of core entropy based on metrics on trees and, dually, on transverse measures on laminations<br />
defining the Julia set.<br />
<br />
On the one hand, this will define a new notion of transverse measures on quadratic laminations, completing the analogy with laminations on surfaces on the “other side” of Sullivan’s dictionary.<br />
Moreover, this is also related to a question of Milnor on a piecewise-linear analogue of Thurston iteration on Teichmueller space.<br />
<br />
===Clark Butler===<br />
<br />
"Unbounded uniformizations of Grkmov hyperbolic spaces"<br />
<br />
In a fundamental work Bonk, Heinonen, and Koskela established a conformal correspondence between Gromov hyperbolic spaces and bounded uniform spaces (satisfying certain additional hypotheses) that generalized the classical conformal correspondence between the Euclidean unit disk and the hyperbolic plane. We prove a similar conformal correspondence between Gromov hyperbolic spaces and unbounded uniform spaces that extends the correspondence between the Euclidean upper half plane and the hyperbolic plane. Our primary application of this uniformization procedure is to extend a number of recent results of Bjorn-Bjorn-Shanmugalingam for Besov spaces on compact metric spaces to Besov spaces on proper metric spaces. These results are derived through a Patterson-Sullivan-esque construction by realizing certain measures on these metric spaces as the boundary values of measures on uniformized Gromov hyperbolic spaces having these metric spaces as their boundaries.<br />
<br />
===Subhadip Dey===<br />
<br />
"Patterson-Sullivan measures for Anosov subgroups"<br />
<br />
Patterson-Sullivan measures were introduced by Patterson (1976) and Sullivan (1979) to study the Kleinian groups and their limit sets. In this talk, we discuss an extension of this classical construction for $P$-Anosov subgroups $\Gamma$ of $G$, where $G$ is a real semisimple Lie group and $P<G$ is a parabolic subgroup. In parallel with the theory for Kleinian groups, we will discuss how one can understand the Hausdorff dimension of the limit set of $\Gamma$ in terms of a certain critical exponent. This is a joint work with Michael Kapovich.<br />
<br />
===Nattalie Tamam===<br />
<br />
"Effective equidistribution of horospherical flows in infinite volume"<br />
<br />
Horospherical flows in homogeneous spaces have been studied intensively over the last several decades and have many surprising applications in various fields. Many basic results are under the assumption that the volume of the space is finite, which is crucial as many basic ergodic theorems fail in the setting of an infinite measure space.In the talk we will discuss the infinite volume setting, and specifically, when can we expect horospherical orbits to equidistribute. Our goal will be to provide an effective equidistribution result, with polynomial rate, for horospherical orbits in the frame bundle of certain infinite volume hyperbolic manifolds. This is a joint work with Jacqueline Warren.<br />
<br />
===Tariq Osman===<br />
<br />
"Limit Theorems for Quadratic Weyl Sums"<br />
<br />
Consider exponential sums of the form $S_N(x, \alpha) := \sum_{n = 1}^{N}e(1/2 n^2 x + n\alpha)$, known as quadratic Weyl sums. We will use homogeneous dynamics to establish a limiting distribution for $\frac{1}{\sqrt N} |S_N(x, \alpha)|$, when $\alpha$ is a fixed rational, and $x$ is chosen uniformly from the unit interval. Time permitting, we will study the tails of the limiting distribution to show that this is not the central limit theorem in disguise. (This is joint work with Francesco Cellarosi)</div>Cwu367https://wiki.math.wisc.edu/index.php?title=Dynamics_Seminar_2020-2021&diff=20383Dynamics Seminar 2020-20212020-11-24T21:05:06Z<p>Cwu367: /* Fall Abstracts */</p>
<hr />
<div>The [[Dynamics Seminar]] meets virtually on '''Wednesdays''' from '''2:30pm - 3:20pm'''.<br />
<br> <br />
For more information, contact Chenxi Wu.<br />
To sign up for the mailing list send an email from your wisc.edu address to dynamics+join@g-groups.wisc.edu<br />
<br />
The zoom login info is as follows:<br />
<br />
Join Zoom Meeting<br />
https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/93164776780?pwd=anE2Y3RhWk1VR0lDa0hnMzhPTTJEUT09<br />
<br />
Meeting ID: 931 6477 6780<br />
Passcode: 819612<br />
<br />
<br />
[[Image:Hawk.jpg|thumb|300px]]<br />
<br />
<br />
== Fall 2020 ==<br />
<br />
{| cellpadding="8"<br />
!align="left" | date<br />
!align="left" | speaker<br />
!align="left" | title<br />
!align="left" | host(s)<br />
|-<br />
|September 16<br />
|Andrew Zimmer (Wisconsin)<br />
|An introduction to Anosov representations I<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|September 23<br />
|Andrew Zimmer (Wisconsin)<br />
|An introduction to Anosov representations II<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|September 30<br />
|Chenxi Wu (Wisconsin)<br />
|Asymptoic translation lengths on curve complexes and free factor complexes<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|October 7<br />
|Kathryn Lindsey (Boston College)<br />
|Slices of Thurston's Master Teapot<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|October 14<br />
|Daniel Thompson (Ohio State)<br />
|Strong ergodic properties for equilibrium states in non-positive curvature<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|October 21<br />
|Giulio Tiozzo (Toronto)<br />
|Metrics on trees, laminations, and core entropy<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|October 28<br />
|No talk<br />
|No talk<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|November 4<br />
|Clark Butler (Princeton)<br />
|"Unbounded uniformizations of Grkmov hyperbolic spaces"<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|November 11<br />
|Subhadip Dey (Yale)<br />
|Patterson-Sullivan measures for Anosov subgroups<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|November 18<br />
|Nattalie Tamam (UCSD)<br />
|Effective equidistribution of horospherical flows in infinite volume<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|November 25<br />
|Tariq Osman (Queens)<br />
|TBA<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|December 2<br />
|Wenyu Pan (Chicago)<br />
|TBA<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
== Fall Abstracts ==<br />
<br />
===Andrew Zimmer===<br />
<br />
"An introduction to Anosov representations"<br />
<br />
Anosov representations are a special class of representations of finitely generated groups into Lie groups, which are defined using ideas from dynamics (namely, the theory of Anosov flows). In this talk, I will explain the definition (in a special case), give some examples, and describe some properties. I will focus on the case of representations into the general linear group where no background knowledge about Lie groups is required.<br />
<br />
<br />
===Chenxi Wu===<br />
<br />
"Asymptotic translation lengths on curve complexes and free factor complexes"<br />
<br />
The curve complex of a closed surface is a simplicial complex where the vertices are simple closed curves up to isotopy and faces are curves that are disjoint, and an analogy for the curve complex in the setting of Out(F_n) is the free factor complex. A pseudo-Anosov map induces a map from the curve graph to itself, and a basic question is to study the asymptotic translation length which is known to be a non-zero rational number. I will review some prior results on the study of this asymptotic translation length, as well as some of their analogies in the setting of free factor complexes. The latter part is an ongoing project with Hyrungryul Baik and Dongryul Kim. [https://wuchenxi.github.io/graph.pdf Slides]<br />
<br />
<br />
===Kathryn Lindsey===<br />
<br />
"Slices of Thurston's Master Teapot"<br />
<br />
Thurston's Master Teapot is the closure of the set of all points $(z,\lambda) \in \mathbb{C} \times \mathbb{R}$ such that $\lambda$ is the growth rate of a critically periodic unimodal self-map of an interval and $z$ is a Galois conjugate of $\lambda$. I will present a new characterization of which points are in this set. This characterization gives a way to think of each horizontal slice of the Master Teapot as an analogy of the Mandelbrot set for a "restricted iterated function system." An application of this characterization is that the Master Teapot is not invariant under the map $(z,\lambda) \mapsto (-z,\lambda)$. This presentation is based on joint work with Chenxi Wu.<br />
<br />
<br />
===Daniel Thompson===<br />
<br />
"Strong ergodic properties for equilibrium states in non-positive curvature"<br />
<br />
Equilibrium states for geodesic flows over compact rank 1 manifolds and sufficiently regular potential functions were studied by Burns, Climenhaga, Fisher and myself. We showed that if the higher rank set does not carry full topological pressure then the equilibrium state is unique. In this talk, I will describe some recent results on the dynamical properties of these unique equilibrium states. We show that these equilibrium states have the Kolmogorov property (joint with Ben Call), and that approximations of the equilibrium states by regular closed geodesics asymptotically satisfy a type of Central Limit Theorem (joint with Tianyu Wang).<br />
<br />
===Giulio Tiozzo===<br />
<br />
"Metrics on trees, laminations, and core entropy"<br />
<br />
The notion of core entropy, defined as the entropy of the restriction to the Hubbard tree,<br />
was formulated by W. Thurston to produce a combinatorial invariant which captures the topological complexity of polynomial Julia sets and varies in a rich fractal way over parameter space.<br />
<br />
Core entropy has been so far defined by looking at a Markov partition on the tree, or by a combinatorial construction involving infinite graphs. We will introduce a new interpretation of core entropy based on metrics on trees and, dually, on transverse measures on laminations<br />
defining the Julia set.<br />
<br />
On the one hand, this will define a new notion of transverse measures on quadratic laminations, completing the analogy with laminations on surfaces on the “other side” of Sullivan’s dictionary.<br />
Moreover, this is also related to a question of Milnor on a piecewise-linear analogue of Thurston iteration on Teichmueller space.<br />
<br />
===Clark Butler===<br />
<br />
"Unbounded uniformizations of Grkmov hyperbolic spaces"<br />
<br />
In a fundamental work Bonk, Heinonen, and Koskela established a conformal correspondence between Gromov hyperbolic spaces and bounded uniform spaces (satisfying certain additional hypotheses) that generalized the classical conformal correspondence between the Euclidean unit disk and the hyperbolic plane. We prove a similar conformal correspondence between Gromov hyperbolic spaces and unbounded uniform spaces that extends the correspondence between the Euclidean upper half plane and the hyperbolic plane. Our primary application of this uniformization procedure is to extend a number of recent results of Bjorn-Bjorn-Shanmugalingam for Besov spaces on compact metric spaces to Besov spaces on proper metric spaces. These results are derived through a Patterson-Sullivan-esque construction by realizing certain measures on these metric spaces as the boundary values of measures on uniformized Gromov hyperbolic spaces having these metric spaces as their boundaries.<br />
<br />
===Subhadip Dey===<br />
<br />
"Patterson-Sullivan measures for Anosov subgroups"<br />
<br />
Patterson-Sullivan measures were introduced by Patterson (1976) and Sullivan (1979) to study the Kleinian groups and their limit sets. In this talk, we discuss an extension of this classical construction for $P$-Anosov subgroups $\Gamma$ of $G$, where $G$ is a real semisimple Lie group and $P<G$ is a parabolic subgroup. In parallel with the theory for Kleinian groups, we will discuss how one can understand the Hausdorff dimension of the limit set of $\Gamma$ in terms of a certain critical exponent. This is a joint work with Michael Kapovich.<br />
<br />
===Nattalie Tamam===<br />
<br />
"Effective equidistribution of horospherical flows in infinite volume"<br />
<br />
Horospherical flows in homogeneous spaces have been studied intensively over the last several decades and have many surprising applications in various fields. Many basic results are under the assumption that the volume of the space is finite, which is crucial as many basic ergodic theorems fail in the setting of an infinite measure space.In the talk we will discuss the infinite volume setting, and specifically, when can we expect horospherical orbits to equidistribute. Our goal will be to provide an effective equidistribution result, with polynomial rate, for horospherical orbits in the frame bundle of certain infinite volume hyperbolic manifolds. This is a joint work with Jacqueline Warren.<br />
<br />
===Tariq Osman===<br />
<br />
"Limit Theorems for Quadratic Weyl Sums"<br />
<br />
Consider exponential sums of the form $S_N(x, \alpha) := \sum_{n = 1}^{N}e(1/2 n^2 x + n\alpha)$, known as quadratic Weyl sums. We will use homogeneous dynamics to establish a limiting distribution for $\frac{1}{\sqrt N} |S_N(x, \alpha)|$, when $\alpha$ is a fixed rational, and $x$ is chosen uniformly from the unit interval. Time permitting, we will study the tails of the limiting distribution to show that this is not the central limit theorem in disguise. (This is joint work with Francesco Cellarosi)</div>Cwu367https://wiki.math.wisc.edu/index.php?title=Dynamics_Seminar_2020-2021&diff=20357Dynamics Seminar 2020-20212020-11-16T17:41:05Z<p>Cwu367: /* Fall Abstracts */</p>
<hr />
<div>The [[Dynamics Seminar]] meets virtually on '''Wednesdays''' from '''2:30pm - 3:20pm'''.<br />
<br> <br />
For more information, contact Chenxi Wu.<br />
To sign up for the mailing list send an email from your wisc.edu address to dynamics+join@g-groups.wisc.edu<br />
<br />
The zoom login info is as follows:<br />
<br />
Join Zoom Meeting<br />
https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/93164776780?pwd=anE2Y3RhWk1VR0lDa0hnMzhPTTJEUT09<br />
<br />
Meeting ID: 931 6477 6780<br />
Passcode: 819612<br />
<br />
<br />
[[Image:Hawk.jpg|thumb|300px]]<br />
<br />
<br />
== Fall 2020 ==<br />
<br />
{| cellpadding="8"<br />
!align="left" | date<br />
!align="left" | speaker<br />
!align="left" | title<br />
!align="left" | host(s)<br />
|-<br />
|September 16<br />
|Andrew Zimmer (Wisconsin)<br />
|An introduction to Anosov representations I<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|September 23<br />
|Andrew Zimmer (Wisconsin)<br />
|An introduction to Anosov representations II<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|September 30<br />
|Chenxi Wu (Wisconsin)<br />
|Asymptoic translation lengths on curve complexes and free factor complexes<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|October 7<br />
|Kathryn Lindsey (Boston College)<br />
|Slices of Thurston's Master Teapot<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|October 14<br />
|Daniel Thompson (Ohio State)<br />
|Strong ergodic properties for equilibrium states in non-positive curvature<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|October 21<br />
|Giulio Tiozzo (Toronto)<br />
|Metrics on trees, laminations, and core entropy<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|October 28<br />
|No talk<br />
|No talk<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|November 4<br />
|Clark Butler (Princeton)<br />
|"Unbounded uniformizations of Grkmov hyperbolic spaces"<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|November 11<br />
|Subhadip Dey (Yale)<br />
|Patterson-Sullivan measures for Anosov subgroups<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|November 18<br />
|Nattalie Tamam (UCSD)<br />
|Effective equidistribution of horospherical flows in infinite volume<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|November 25<br />
|Tariq Osman (Queens)<br />
|TBA<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|December 2<br />
|Wenyu Pan (Chicago)<br />
|TBA<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
== Fall Abstracts ==<br />
<br />
===Andrew Zimmer===<br />
<br />
"An introduction to Anosov representations"<br />
<br />
Anosov representations are a special class of representations of finitely generated groups into Lie groups, which are defined using ideas from dynamics (namely, the theory of Anosov flows). In this talk, I will explain the definition (in a special case), give some examples, and describe some properties. I will focus on the case of representations into the general linear group where no background knowledge about Lie groups is required.<br />
<br />
<br />
===Chenxi Wu===<br />
<br />
"Asymptotic translation lengths on curve complexes and free factor complexes"<br />
<br />
The curve complex of a closed surface is a simplicial complex where the vertices are simple closed curves up to isotopy and faces are curves that are disjoint, and an analogy for the curve complex in the setting of Out(F_n) is the free factor complex. A pseudo-Anosov map induces a map from the curve graph to itself, and a basic question is to study the asymptotic translation length which is known to be a non-zero rational number. I will review some prior results on the study of this asymptotic translation length, as well as some of their analogies in the setting of free factor complexes. The latter part is an ongoing project with Hyrungryul Baik and Dongryul Kim. [https://wuchenxi.github.io/graph.pdf Slides]<br />
<br />
<br />
===Kathryn Lindsey===<br />
<br />
"Slices of Thurston's Master Teapot"<br />
<br />
Thurston's Master Teapot is the closure of the set of all points $(z,\lambda) \in \mathbb{C} \times \mathbb{R}$ such that $\lambda$ is the growth rate of a critically periodic unimodal self-map of an interval and $z$ is a Galois conjugate of $\lambda$. I will present a new characterization of which points are in this set. This characterization gives a way to think of each horizontal slice of the Master Teapot as an analogy of the Mandelbrot set for a "restricted iterated function system." An application of this characterization is that the Master Teapot is not invariant under the map $(z,\lambda) \mapsto (-z,\lambda)$. This presentation is based on joint work with Chenxi Wu.<br />
<br />
<br />
===Daniel Thompson===<br />
<br />
"Strong ergodic properties for equilibrium states in non-positive curvature"<br />
<br />
Equilibrium states for geodesic flows over compact rank 1 manifolds and sufficiently regular potential functions were studied by Burns, Climenhaga, Fisher and myself. We showed that if the higher rank set does not carry full topological pressure then the equilibrium state is unique. In this talk, I will describe some recent results on the dynamical properties of these unique equilibrium states. We show that these equilibrium states have the Kolmogorov property (joint with Ben Call), and that approximations of the equilibrium states by regular closed geodesics asymptotically satisfy a type of Central Limit Theorem (joint with Tianyu Wang).<br />
<br />
===Giulio Tiozzo===<br />
<br />
"Metrics on trees, laminations, and core entropy"<br />
<br />
The notion of core entropy, defined as the entropy of the restriction to the Hubbard tree,<br />
was formulated by W. Thurston to produce a combinatorial invariant which captures the topological complexity of polynomial Julia sets and varies in a rich fractal way over parameter space.<br />
<br />
Core entropy has been so far defined by looking at a Markov partition on the tree, or by a combinatorial construction involving infinite graphs. We will introduce a new interpretation of core entropy based on metrics on trees and, dually, on transverse measures on laminations<br />
defining the Julia set.<br />
<br />
On the one hand, this will define a new notion of transverse measures on quadratic laminations, completing the analogy with laminations on surfaces on the “other side” of Sullivan’s dictionary.<br />
Moreover, this is also related to a question of Milnor on a piecewise-linear analogue of Thurston iteration on Teichmueller space.<br />
<br />
===Clark Butler===<br />
<br />
"Unbounded uniformizations of Grkmov hyperbolic spaces"<br />
<br />
In a fundamental work Bonk, Heinonen, and Koskela established a conformal correspondence between Gromov hyperbolic spaces and bounded uniform spaces (satisfying certain additional hypotheses) that generalized the classical conformal correspondence between the Euclidean unit disk and the hyperbolic plane. We prove a similar conformal correspondence between Gromov hyperbolic spaces and unbounded uniform spaces that extends the correspondence between the Euclidean upper half plane and the hyperbolic plane. Our primary application of this uniformization procedure is to extend a number of recent results of Bjorn-Bjorn-Shanmugalingam for Besov spaces on compact metric spaces to Besov spaces on proper metric spaces. These results are derived through a Patterson-Sullivan-esque construction by realizing certain measures on these metric spaces as the boundary values of measures on uniformized Gromov hyperbolic spaces having these metric spaces as their boundaries.<br />
<br />
===Subhadip Dey===<br />
<br />
"Patterson-Sullivan measures for Anosov subgroups"<br />
<br />
Patterson-Sullivan measures were introduced by Patterson (1976) and Sullivan (1979) to study the Kleinian groups and their limit sets. In this talk, we discuss an extension of this classical construction for $P$-Anosov subgroups $\Gamma$ of $G$, where $G$ is a real semisimple Lie group and $P<G$ is a parabolic subgroup. In parallel with the theory for Kleinian groups, we will discuss how one can understand the Hausdorff dimension of the limit set of $\Gamma$ in terms of a certain critical exponent. This is a joint work with Michael Kapovich.<br />
<br />
===Nattalie Tamam===<br />
<br />
"Effective equidistribution of horospherical flows in infinite volume"<br />
<br />
Horospherical flows in homogeneous spaces have been studied intensively over the last several decades and have many surprising applications in various fields. Many basic results are under the assumption that the volume of the space is finite, which is crucial as many basic ergodic theorems fail in the setting of an infinite measure space.In the talk we will discuss the infinite volume setting, and specifically, when can we expect horospherical orbits to equidistribute. Our goal will be to provide an effective equidistribution result, with polynomial rate, for horospherical orbits in the frame bundle of certain infinite volume hyperbolic manifolds. This is a joint work with Jacqueline Warren.</div>Cwu367https://wiki.math.wisc.edu/index.php?title=Dynamics_Seminar_2020-2021&diff=20356Dynamics Seminar 2020-20212020-11-16T17:39:39Z<p>Cwu367: /* Fall 2020 */</p>
<hr />
<div>The [[Dynamics Seminar]] meets virtually on '''Wednesdays''' from '''2:30pm - 3:20pm'''.<br />
<br> <br />
For more information, contact Chenxi Wu.<br />
To sign up for the mailing list send an email from your wisc.edu address to dynamics+join@g-groups.wisc.edu<br />
<br />
The zoom login info is as follows:<br />
<br />
Join Zoom Meeting<br />
https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/93164776780?pwd=anE2Y3RhWk1VR0lDa0hnMzhPTTJEUT09<br />
<br />
Meeting ID: 931 6477 6780<br />
Passcode: 819612<br />
<br />
<br />
[[Image:Hawk.jpg|thumb|300px]]<br />
<br />
<br />
== Fall 2020 ==<br />
<br />
{| cellpadding="8"<br />
!align="left" | date<br />
!align="left" | speaker<br />
!align="left" | title<br />
!align="left" | host(s)<br />
|-<br />
|September 16<br />
|Andrew Zimmer (Wisconsin)<br />
|An introduction to Anosov representations I<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|September 23<br />
|Andrew Zimmer (Wisconsin)<br />
|An introduction to Anosov representations II<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|September 30<br />
|Chenxi Wu (Wisconsin)<br />
|Asymptoic translation lengths on curve complexes and free factor complexes<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|October 7<br />
|Kathryn Lindsey (Boston College)<br />
|Slices of Thurston's Master Teapot<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|October 14<br />
|Daniel Thompson (Ohio State)<br />
|Strong ergodic properties for equilibrium states in non-positive curvature<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|October 21<br />
|Giulio Tiozzo (Toronto)<br />
|Metrics on trees, laminations, and core entropy<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|October 28<br />
|No talk<br />
|No talk<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|November 4<br />
|Clark Butler (Princeton)<br />
|"Unbounded uniformizations of Grkmov hyperbolic spaces"<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|November 11<br />
|Subhadip Dey (Yale)<br />
|Patterson-Sullivan measures for Anosov subgroups<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|November 18<br />
|Nattalie Tamam (UCSD)<br />
|Effective equidistribution of horospherical flows in infinite volume<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|November 25<br />
|Tariq Osman (Queens)<br />
|TBA<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|December 2<br />
|Wenyu Pan (Chicago)<br />
|TBA<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
== Fall Abstracts ==<br />
<br />
===Andrew Zimmer===<br />
<br />
"An introduction to Anosov representations"<br />
<br />
Anosov representations are a special class of representations of finitely generated groups into Lie groups, which are defined using ideas from dynamics (namely, the theory of Anosov flows). In this talk, I will explain the definition (in a special case), give some examples, and describe some properties. I will focus on the case of representations into the general linear group where no background knowledge about Lie groups is required.<br />
<br />
<br />
===Chenxi Wu===<br />
<br />
"Asymptotic translation lengths on curve complexes and free factor complexes"<br />
<br />
The curve complex of a closed surface is a simplicial complex where the vertices are simple closed curves up to isotopy and faces are curves that are disjoint, and an analogy for the curve complex in the setting of Out(F_n) is the free factor complex. A pseudo-Anosov map induces a map from the curve graph to itself, and a basic question is to study the asymptotic translation length which is known to be a non-zero rational number. I will review some prior results on the study of this asymptotic translation length, as well as some of their analogies in the setting of free factor complexes. The latter part is an ongoing project with Hyrungryul Baik and Dongryul Kim. [https://wuchenxi.github.io/graph.pdf Slides]<br />
<br />
<br />
===Kathryn Lindsey===<br />
<br />
"Slices of Thurston's Master Teapot"<br />
<br />
Thurston's Master Teapot is the closure of the set of all points $(z,\lambda) \in \mathbb{C} \times \mathbb{R}$ such that $\lambda$ is the growth rate of a critically periodic unimodal self-map of an interval and $z$ is a Galois conjugate of $\lambda$. I will present a new characterization of which points are in this set. This characterization gives a way to think of each horizontal slice of the Master Teapot as an analogy of the Mandelbrot set for a "restricted iterated function system." An application of this characterization is that the Master Teapot is not invariant under the map $(z,\lambda) \mapsto (-z,\lambda)$. This presentation is based on joint work with Chenxi Wu.<br />
<br />
<br />
===Daniel Thompson===<br />
<br />
"Strong ergodic properties for equilibrium states in non-positive curvature"<br />
<br />
Equilibrium states for geodesic flows over compact rank 1 manifolds and sufficiently regular potential functions were studied by Burns, Climenhaga, Fisher and myself. We showed that if the higher rank set does not carry full topological pressure then the equilibrium state is unique. In this talk, I will describe some recent results on the dynamical properties of these unique equilibrium states. We show that these equilibrium states have the Kolmogorov property (joint with Ben Call), and that approximations of the equilibrium states by regular closed geodesics asymptotically satisfy a type of Central Limit Theorem (joint with Tianyu Wang).<br />
<br />
===Giulio Tiozzo===<br />
<br />
"Metrics on trees, laminations, and core entropy"<br />
<br />
The notion of core entropy, defined as the entropy of the restriction to the Hubbard tree,<br />
was formulated by W. Thurston to produce a combinatorial invariant which captures the topological complexity of polynomial Julia sets and varies in a rich fractal way over parameter space.<br />
<br />
Core entropy has been so far defined by looking at a Markov partition on the tree, or by a combinatorial construction involving infinite graphs. We will introduce a new interpretation of core entropy based on metrics on trees and, dually, on transverse measures on laminations<br />
defining the Julia set.<br />
<br />
On the one hand, this will define a new notion of transverse measures on quadratic laminations, completing the analogy with laminations on surfaces on the “other side” of Sullivan’s dictionary.<br />
Moreover, this is also related to a question of Milnor on a piecewise-linear analogue of Thurston iteration on Teichmueller space.<br />
<br />
===Clark Butler===<br />
<br />
"Unbounded uniformizations of Grkmov hyperbolic spaces"<br />
<br />
In a fundamental work Bonk, Heinonen, and Koskela established a conformal correspondence between Gromov hyperbolic spaces and bounded uniform spaces (satisfying certain additional hypotheses) that generalized the classical conformal correspondence between the Euclidean unit disk and the hyperbolic plane. We prove a similar conformal correspondence between Gromov hyperbolic spaces and unbounded uniform spaces that extends the correspondence between the Euclidean upper half plane and the hyperbolic plane. Our primary application of this uniformization procedure is to extend a number of recent results of Bjorn-Bjorn-Shanmugalingam for Besov spaces on compact metric spaces to Besov spaces on proper metric spaces. These results are derived through a Patterson-Sullivan-esque construction by realizing certain measures on these metric spaces as the boundary values of measures on uniformized Gromov hyperbolic spaces having these metric spaces as their boundaries.<br />
<br />
===Subhadip Dey===<br />
<br />
"Patterson-Sullivan measures for Anosov subgroups"<br />
<br />
Patterson-Sullivan measures were introduced by Patterson (1976) and Sullivan (1979) to study the Kleinian groups and their limit sets. In this talk, we discuss an extension of this classical construction for $P$-Anosov subgroups $\Gamma$ of $G$, where $G$ is a real semisimple Lie group and $P<G$ is a parabolic subgroup. In parallel with the theory for Kleinian groups, we will discuss how one can understand the Hausdorff dimension of the limit set of $\Gamma$ in terms of a certain critical exponent. This is a joint work with Michael Kapovich.</div>Cwu367https://wiki.math.wisc.edu/index.php?title=Dynamics_Seminar_2020-2021&diff=20323Dynamics Seminar 2020-20212020-11-10T18:29:02Z<p>Cwu367: /* Fall Abstracts */</p>
<hr />
<div>The [[Dynamics Seminar]] meets virtually on '''Wednesdays''' from '''2:30pm - 3:20pm'''.<br />
<br> <br />
For more information, contact Chenxi Wu.<br />
To sign up for the mailing list send an email from your wisc.edu address to dynamics+join@g-groups.wisc.edu<br />
<br />
The zoom login info is as follows:<br />
<br />
Join Zoom Meeting<br />
https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/93164776780?pwd=anE2Y3RhWk1VR0lDa0hnMzhPTTJEUT09<br />
<br />
Meeting ID: 931 6477 6780<br />
Passcode: 819612<br />
<br />
<br />
[[Image:Hawk.jpg|thumb|300px]]<br />
<br />
<br />
== Fall 2020 ==<br />
<br />
{| cellpadding="8"<br />
!align="left" | date<br />
!align="left" | speaker<br />
!align="left" | title<br />
!align="left" | host(s)<br />
|-<br />
|September 16<br />
|Andrew Zimmer (Wisconsin)<br />
|An introduction to Anosov representations I<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|September 23<br />
|Andrew Zimmer (Wisconsin)<br />
|An introduction to Anosov representations II<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|September 30<br />
|Chenxi Wu (Wisconsin)<br />
|Asymptoic translation lengths on curve complexes and free factor complexes<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|October 7<br />
|Kathryn Lindsey (Boston College)<br />
|Slices of Thurston's Master Teapot<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|October 14<br />
|Daniel Thompson (Ohio State)<br />
|Strong ergodic properties for equilibrium states in non-positive curvature<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|October 21<br />
|Giulio Tiozzo (Toronto)<br />
|Metrics on trees, laminations, and core entropy<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|October 28<br />
|No talk<br />
|No talk<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|November 4<br />
|Clark Butler (Princeton)<br />
|"Unbounded uniformizations of Grkmov hyperbolic spaces"<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|November 11<br />
|Subhadip Dey (Yale)<br />
|Patterson-Sullivan measures for Anosov subgroups<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|November 18<br />
|Nattalie Tamam (UCSD)<br />
|TBA<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|November 25<br />
|Tariq Osman (Queens)<br />
|TBA<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|December 2<br />
|Wenyu Pan (Chicago)<br />
|TBA<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
== Fall Abstracts ==<br />
<br />
===Andrew Zimmer===<br />
<br />
"An introduction to Anosov representations"<br />
<br />
Anosov representations are a special class of representations of finitely generated groups into Lie groups, which are defined using ideas from dynamics (namely, the theory of Anosov flows). In this talk, I will explain the definition (in a special case), give some examples, and describe some properties. I will focus on the case of representations into the general linear group where no background knowledge about Lie groups is required.<br />
<br />
<br />
===Chenxi Wu===<br />
<br />
"Asymptotic translation lengths on curve complexes and free factor complexes"<br />
<br />
The curve complex of a closed surface is a simplicial complex where the vertices are simple closed curves up to isotopy and faces are curves that are disjoint, and an analogy for the curve complex in the setting of Out(F_n) is the free factor complex. A pseudo-Anosov map induces a map from the curve graph to itself, and a basic question is to study the asymptotic translation length which is known to be a non-zero rational number. I will review some prior results on the study of this asymptotic translation length, as well as some of their analogies in the setting of free factor complexes. The latter part is an ongoing project with Hyrungryul Baik and Dongryul Kim. [https://wuchenxi.github.io/graph.pdf Slides]<br />
<br />
<br />
===Kathryn Lindsey===<br />
<br />
"Slices of Thurston's Master Teapot"<br />
<br />
Thurston's Master Teapot is the closure of the set of all points $(z,\lambda) \in \mathbb{C} \times \mathbb{R}$ such that $\lambda$ is the growth rate of a critically periodic unimodal self-map of an interval and $z$ is a Galois conjugate of $\lambda$. I will present a new characterization of which points are in this set. This characterization gives a way to think of each horizontal slice of the Master Teapot as an analogy of the Mandelbrot set for a "restricted iterated function system." An application of this characterization is that the Master Teapot is not invariant under the map $(z,\lambda) \mapsto (-z,\lambda)$. This presentation is based on joint work with Chenxi Wu.<br />
<br />
<br />
===Daniel Thompson===<br />
<br />
"Strong ergodic properties for equilibrium states in non-positive curvature"<br />
<br />
Equilibrium states for geodesic flows over compact rank 1 manifolds and sufficiently regular potential functions were studied by Burns, Climenhaga, Fisher and myself. We showed that if the higher rank set does not carry full topological pressure then the equilibrium state is unique. In this talk, I will describe some recent results on the dynamical properties of these unique equilibrium states. We show that these equilibrium states have the Kolmogorov property (joint with Ben Call), and that approximations of the equilibrium states by regular closed geodesics asymptotically satisfy a type of Central Limit Theorem (joint with Tianyu Wang).<br />
<br />
===Giulio Tiozzo===<br />
<br />
"Metrics on trees, laminations, and core entropy"<br />
<br />
The notion of core entropy, defined as the entropy of the restriction to the Hubbard tree,<br />
was formulated by W. Thurston to produce a combinatorial invariant which captures the topological complexity of polynomial Julia sets and varies in a rich fractal way over parameter space.<br />
<br />
Core entropy has been so far defined by looking at a Markov partition on the tree, or by a combinatorial construction involving infinite graphs. We will introduce a new interpretation of core entropy based on metrics on trees and, dually, on transverse measures on laminations<br />
defining the Julia set.<br />
<br />
On the one hand, this will define a new notion of transverse measures on quadratic laminations, completing the analogy with laminations on surfaces on the “other side” of Sullivan’s dictionary.<br />
Moreover, this is also related to a question of Milnor on a piecewise-linear analogue of Thurston iteration on Teichmueller space.<br />
<br />
===Clark Butler===<br />
<br />
"Unbounded uniformizations of Grkmov hyperbolic spaces"<br />
<br />
In a fundamental work Bonk, Heinonen, and Koskela established a conformal correspondence between Gromov hyperbolic spaces and bounded uniform spaces (satisfying certain additional hypotheses) that generalized the classical conformal correspondence between the Euclidean unit disk and the hyperbolic plane. We prove a similar conformal correspondence between Gromov hyperbolic spaces and unbounded uniform spaces that extends the correspondence between the Euclidean upper half plane and the hyperbolic plane. Our primary application of this uniformization procedure is to extend a number of recent results of Bjorn-Bjorn-Shanmugalingam for Besov spaces on compact metric spaces to Besov spaces on proper metric spaces. These results are derived through a Patterson-Sullivan-esque construction by realizing certain measures on these metric spaces as the boundary values of measures on uniformized Gromov hyperbolic spaces having these metric spaces as their boundaries.<br />
<br />
===Subhadip Dey===<br />
<br />
"Patterson-Sullivan measures for Anosov subgroups"<br />
<br />
Patterson-Sullivan measures were introduced by Patterson (1976) and Sullivan (1979) to study the Kleinian groups and their limit sets. In this talk, we discuss an extension of this classical construction for $P$-Anosov subgroups $\Gamma$ of $G$, where $G$ is a real semisimple Lie group and $P<G$ is a parabolic subgroup. In parallel with the theory for Kleinian groups, we will discuss how one can understand the Hausdorff dimension of the limit set of $\Gamma$ in terms of a certain critical exponent. This is a joint work with Michael Kapovich.</div>Cwu367https://wiki.math.wisc.edu/index.php?title=Dynamics_Seminar_2020-2021&diff=20322Dynamics Seminar 2020-20212020-11-10T18:28:00Z<p>Cwu367: /* Fall 2020 */</p>
<hr />
<div>The [[Dynamics Seminar]] meets virtually on '''Wednesdays''' from '''2:30pm - 3:20pm'''.<br />
<br> <br />
For more information, contact Chenxi Wu.<br />
To sign up for the mailing list send an email from your wisc.edu address to dynamics+join@g-groups.wisc.edu<br />
<br />
The zoom login info is as follows:<br />
<br />
Join Zoom Meeting<br />
https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/93164776780?pwd=anE2Y3RhWk1VR0lDa0hnMzhPTTJEUT09<br />
<br />
Meeting ID: 931 6477 6780<br />
Passcode: 819612<br />
<br />
<br />
[[Image:Hawk.jpg|thumb|300px]]<br />
<br />
<br />
== Fall 2020 ==<br />
<br />
{| cellpadding="8"<br />
!align="left" | date<br />
!align="left" | speaker<br />
!align="left" | title<br />
!align="left" | host(s)<br />
|-<br />
|September 16<br />
|Andrew Zimmer (Wisconsin)<br />
|An introduction to Anosov representations I<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|September 23<br />
|Andrew Zimmer (Wisconsin)<br />
|An introduction to Anosov representations II<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|September 30<br />
|Chenxi Wu (Wisconsin)<br />
|Asymptoic translation lengths on curve complexes and free factor complexes<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|October 7<br />
|Kathryn Lindsey (Boston College)<br />
|Slices of Thurston's Master Teapot<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|October 14<br />
|Daniel Thompson (Ohio State)<br />
|Strong ergodic properties for equilibrium states in non-positive curvature<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|October 21<br />
|Giulio Tiozzo (Toronto)<br />
|Metrics on trees, laminations, and core entropy<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|October 28<br />
|No talk<br />
|No talk<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|November 4<br />
|Clark Butler (Princeton)<br />
|"Unbounded uniformizations of Grkmov hyperbolic spaces"<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|November 11<br />
|Subhadip Dey (Yale)<br />
|Patterson-Sullivan measures for Anosov subgroups<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|November 18<br />
|Nattalie Tamam (UCSD)<br />
|TBA<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|November 25<br />
|Tariq Osman (Queens)<br />
|TBA<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|December 2<br />
|Wenyu Pan (Chicago)<br />
|TBA<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
== Fall Abstracts ==<br />
<br />
===Andrew Zimmer===<br />
<br />
"An introduction to Anosov representations"<br />
<br />
Anosov representations are a special class of representations of finitely generated groups into Lie groups, which are defined using ideas from dynamics (namely, the theory of Anosov flows). In this talk, I will explain the definition (in a special case), give some examples, and describe some properties. I will focus on the case of representations into the general linear group where no background knowledge about Lie groups is required.<br />
<br />
<br />
===Chenxi Wu===<br />
<br />
"Asymptotic translation lengths on curve complexes and free factor complexes"<br />
<br />
The curve complex of a closed surface is a simplicial complex where the vertices are simple closed curves up to isotopy and faces are curves that are disjoint, and an analogy for the curve complex in the setting of Out(F_n) is the free factor complex. A pseudo-Anosov map induces a map from the curve graph to itself, and a basic question is to study the asymptotic translation length which is known to be a non-zero rational number. I will review some prior results on the study of this asymptotic translation length, as well as some of their analogies in the setting of free factor complexes. The latter part is an ongoing project with Hyrungryul Baik and Dongryul Kim. [https://wuchenxi.github.io/graph.pdf Slides]<br />
<br />
<br />
===Kathryn Lindsey===<br />
<br />
"Slices of Thurston's Master Teapot"<br />
<br />
Thurston's Master Teapot is the closure of the set of all points $(z,\lambda) \in \mathbb{C} \times \mathbb{R}$ such that $\lambda$ is the growth rate of a critically periodic unimodal self-map of an interval and $z$ is a Galois conjugate of $\lambda$. I will present a new characterization of which points are in this set. This characterization gives a way to think of each horizontal slice of the Master Teapot as an analogy of the Mandelbrot set for a "restricted iterated function system." An application of this characterization is that the Master Teapot is not invariant under the map $(z,\lambda) \mapsto (-z,\lambda)$. This presentation is based on joint work with Chenxi Wu.<br />
<br />
<br />
===Daniel Thompson===<br />
<br />
"Strong ergodic properties for equilibrium states in non-positive curvature"<br />
<br />
Equilibrium states for geodesic flows over compact rank 1 manifolds and sufficiently regular potential functions were studied by Burns, Climenhaga, Fisher and myself. We showed that if the higher rank set does not carry full topological pressure then the equilibrium state is unique. In this talk, I will describe some recent results on the dynamical properties of these unique equilibrium states. We show that these equilibrium states have the Kolmogorov property (joint with Ben Call), and that approximations of the equilibrium states by regular closed geodesics asymptotically satisfy a type of Central Limit Theorem (joint with Tianyu Wang).<br />
<br />
===Giulio Tiozzo===<br />
<br />
"Metrics on trees, laminations, and core entropy"<br />
<br />
The notion of core entropy, defined as the entropy of the restriction to the Hubbard tree,<br />
was formulated by W. Thurston to produce a combinatorial invariant which captures the topological complexity of polynomial Julia sets and varies in a rich fractal way over parameter space.<br />
<br />
Core entropy has been so far defined by looking at a Markov partition on the tree, or by a combinatorial construction involving infinite graphs. We will introduce a new interpretation of core entropy based on metrics on trees and, dually, on transverse measures on laminations<br />
defining the Julia set.<br />
<br />
On the one hand, this will define a new notion of transverse measures on quadratic laminations, completing the analogy with laminations on surfaces on the “other side” of Sullivan’s dictionary.<br />
Moreover, this is also related to a question of Milnor on a piecewise-linear analogue of Thurston iteration on Teichmueller space.<br />
<br />
===Clark Butler===<br />
<br />
"Unbounded uniformizations of Grkmov hyperbolic spaces"<br />
<br />
In a fundamental work Bonk, Heinonen, and Koskela established a conformal correspondence between Gromov hyperbolic spaces and bounded uniform spaces (satisfying certain additional hypotheses) that generalized the classical conformal correspondence between the Euclidean unit disk and the hyperbolic plane. We prove a similar conformal correspondence between Gromov hyperbolic spaces and unbounded uniform spaces that extends the correspondence between the Euclidean upper half plane and the hyperbolic plane. Our primary application of this uniformization procedure is to extend a number of recent results of Bjorn-Bjorn-Shanmugalingam for Besov spaces on compact metric spaces to Besov spaces on proper metric spaces. These results are derived through a Patterson-Sullivan-esque construction by realizing certain measures on these metric spaces as the boundary values of measures on uniformized Gromov hyperbolic spaces having these metric spaces as their boundaries.</div>Cwu367https://wiki.math.wisc.edu/index.php?title=Dynamics_Seminar_2020-2021&diff=20199Dynamics Seminar 2020-20212020-10-23T18:10:25Z<p>Cwu367: /* Fall 2020 */</p>
<hr />
<div>The [[Dynamics Seminar]] meets virtually on '''Wednesdays''' from '''2:30pm - 3:20pm'''.<br />
<br> <br />
For more information, contact Chenxi Wu.<br />
To sign up for the mailing list send an email from your wisc.edu address to dynamics+join@g-groups.wisc.edu<br />
<br />
The zoom login info is as follows:<br />
<br />
Join Zoom Meeting<br />
https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/93164776780?pwd=anE2Y3RhWk1VR0lDa0hnMzhPTTJEUT09<br />
<br />
Meeting ID: 931 6477 6780<br />
Passcode: 819612<br />
<br />
<br />
[[Image:Hawk.jpg|thumb|300px]]<br />
<br />
<br />
== Fall 2020 ==<br />
<br />
{| cellpadding="8"<br />
!align="left" | date<br />
!align="left" | speaker<br />
!align="left" | title<br />
!align="left" | host(s)<br />
|-<br />
|September 16<br />
|Andrew Zimmer (Wisconsin)<br />
|An introduction to Anosov representations I<br />
| (local)<br />
|-<br />
|September 23<br />
|Andrew Zimmer (Wisconsin)<br />
|An introduction to Anosov representations II<br />
| (local)<br />
|-<br />
|September 30<br />
|Chenxi Wu (Wisconsin)<br />
|Asymptoic translation lengths on curve complexes and free factor complexes<br />
| (local)<br />
|-<br />
|October 7<br />
|Kathryn Lindsey (Boston College)<br />
|Slices of Thurston's Master Teapot<br />
| (local)<br />
|-<br />
|October 14<br />
|Daniel Thompson (Ohio State)<br />
|Strong ergodic properties for equilibrium states in non-positive curvature<br />
| (local)<br />
|-<br />
|October 21<br />
|Giulio Tiozzo (Toronto)<br />
|Metrics on trees, laminations, and core entropy<br />
| (local)<br />
|-<br />
|October 28<br />
|No talk<br />
|No talk<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|November 4<br />
|Clark Butler (Princeton)<br />
|TBA<br />
| (local)<br />
|-<br />
|November 11<br />
|Subhadip Dey (Yale)<br />
|TBA<br />
| (local)<br />
|-<br />
|November 18<br />
|Nattalie Tamam (UCSD)<br />
|TBA<br />
| (local)<br />
|-<br />
|November 25<br />
|Tariq Osman (Queens)<br />
|TBA<br />
| (local)<br />
|-<br />
|December 2<br />
|Wenyu Pan (Chicago)<br />
|TBA<br />
| (local)<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
== Fall Abstracts ==<br />
<br />
===Andrew Zimmer===<br />
<br />
"An introduction to Anosov representations"<br />
<br />
Anosov representations are a special class of representations of finitely generated groups into Lie groups, which are defined using ideas from dynamics (namely, the theory of Anosov flows). In this talk, I will explain the definition (in a special case), give some examples, and describe some properties. I will focus on the case of representations into the general linear group where no background knowledge about Lie groups is required.<br />
<br />
<br />
===Chenxi Wu===<br />
<br />
"Asymptotic translation lengths on curve complexes and free factor complexes"<br />
<br />
The curve complex of a closed surface is a simplicial complex where the vertices are simple closed curves up to isotopy and faces are curves that are disjoint, and an analogy for the curve complex in the setting of Out(F_n) is the free factor complex. A pseudo-Anosov map induces a map from the curve graph to itself, and a basic question is to study the asymptotic translation length which is known to be a non-zero rational number. I will review some prior results on the study of this asymptotic translation length, as well as some of their analogies in the setting of free factor complexes. The latter part is an ongoing project with Hyrungryul Baik and Dongryul Kim. [https://wuchenxi.github.io/graph.pdf Slides]<br />
<br />
<br />
===Kathryn Lindsey===<br />
<br />
"Slices of Thurston's Master Teapot"<br />
<br />
Thurston's Master Teapot is the closure of the set of all points $(z,\lambda) \in \mathbb{C} \times \mathbb{R}$ such that $\lambda$ is the growth rate of a critically periodic unimodal self-map of an interval and $z$ is a Galois conjugate of $\lambda$. I will present a new characterization of which points are in this set. This characterization gives a way to think of each horizontal slice of the Master Teapot as an analogy of the Mandelbrot set for a "restricted iterated function system." An application of this characterization is that the Master Teapot is not invariant under the map $(z,\lambda) \mapsto (-z,\lambda)$. This presentation is based on joint work with Chenxi Wu.<br />
<br />
<br />
===Daniel Thompson===<br />
<br />
"Strong ergodic properties for equilibrium states in non-positive curvature"<br />
<br />
Equilibrium states for geodesic flows over compact rank 1 manifolds and sufficiently regular potential functions were studied by Burns, Climenhaga, Fisher and myself. We showed that if the higher rank set does not carry full topological pressure then the equilibrium state is unique. In this talk, I will describe some recent results on the dynamical properties of these unique equilibrium states. We show that these equilibrium states have the Kolmogorov property (joint with Ben Call), and that approximations of the equilibrium states by regular closed geodesics asymptotically satisfy a type of Central Limit Theorem (joint with Tianyu Wang).<br />
<br />
===Giulio Tiozzo===<br />
<br />
"Metrics on trees, laminations, and core entropy"<br />
<br />
The notion of core entropy, defined as the entropy of the restriction to the Hubbard tree,<br />
was formulated by W. Thurston to produce a combinatorial invariant which captures the topological complexity of polynomial Julia sets and varies in a rich fractal way over parameter space.<br />
<br />
Core entropy has been so far defined by looking at a Markov partition on the tree, or by a combinatorial construction involving infinite graphs. We will introduce a new interpretation of core entropy based on metrics on trees and, dually, on transverse measures on laminations<br />
defining the Julia set.<br />
<br />
On the one hand, this will define a new notion of transverse measures on quadratic laminations, completing the analogy with laminations on surfaces on the “other side” of Sullivan’s dictionary.<br />
Moreover, this is also related to a question of Milnor on a piecewise-linear analogue of Thurston iteration on Teichmueller space.</div>Cwu367https://wiki.math.wisc.edu/index.php?title=Dynamics_Seminar_2020-2021&diff=20191Dynamics Seminar 2020-20212020-10-21T19:36:54Z<p>Cwu367: </p>
<hr />
<div>The [[Dynamics Seminar]] meets virtually on '''Wednesdays''' from '''2:30pm - 3:20pm'''.<br />
<br> <br />
For more information, contact Chenxi Wu.<br />
To sign up for the mailing list send an email from your wisc.edu address to dynamics+join@g-groups.wisc.edu<br />
<br />
The zoom login info is as follows:<br />
<br />
Join Zoom Meeting<br />
https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/93164776780?pwd=anE2Y3RhWk1VR0lDa0hnMzhPTTJEUT09<br />
<br />
Meeting ID: 931 6477 6780<br />
Passcode: 819612<br />
<br />
<br />
[[Image:Hawk.jpg|thumb|300px]]<br />
<br />
<br />
== Fall 2020 ==<br />
<br />
{| cellpadding="8"<br />
!align="left" | date<br />
!align="left" | speaker<br />
!align="left" | title<br />
!align="left" | host(s)<br />
|-<br />
|September 16<br />
|Andrew Zimmer (Wisconsin)<br />
|An introduction to Anosov representations I<br />
| (local)<br />
|-<br />
|September 23<br />
|Andrew Zimmer (Wisconsin)<br />
|An introduction to Anosov representations II<br />
| (local)<br />
|-<br />
|September 30<br />
|Chenxi Wu (Wisconsin)<br />
|Asymptoic translation lengths on curve complexes and free factor complexes<br />
| (local)<br />
|-<br />
|October 7<br />
|Kathryn Lindsey (Boston College)<br />
|Slices of Thurston's Master Teapot<br />
| (local)<br />
|-<br />
|October 14<br />
|Daniel Thompson (Ohio State)<br />
|Strong ergodic properties for equilibrium states in non-positive curvature<br />
| (local)<br />
|-<br />
|October 21<br />
|Giulio Tiozzo (Toronto)<br />
|Metrics on trees, laminations, and core entropy<br />
| (local)<br />
|-<br />
|November 18<br />
|Nattalie Tamam (UCSD)<br />
|TBA<br />
| (local)<br />
|-<br />
|November 25<br />
|Tariq Osman (Queens)<br />
|TBA<br />
| (local)<br />
|-<br />
|December 2<br />
|Wenyu Pan (Chicago)<br />
|TBA<br />
| (local)<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
== Fall Abstracts ==<br />
<br />
===Andrew Zimmer===<br />
<br />
"An introduction to Anosov representations"<br />
<br />
Anosov representations are a special class of representations of finitely generated groups into Lie groups, which are defined using ideas from dynamics (namely, the theory of Anosov flows). In this talk, I will explain the definition (in a special case), give some examples, and describe some properties. I will focus on the case of representations into the general linear group where no background knowledge about Lie groups is required.<br />
<br />
<br />
===Chenxi Wu===<br />
<br />
"Asymptotic translation lengths on curve complexes and free factor complexes"<br />
<br />
The curve complex of a closed surface is a simplicial complex where the vertices are simple closed curves up to isotopy and faces are curves that are disjoint, and an analogy for the curve complex in the setting of Out(F_n) is the free factor complex. A pseudo-Anosov map induces a map from the curve graph to itself, and a basic question is to study the asymptotic translation length which is known to be a non-zero rational number. I will review some prior results on the study of this asymptotic translation length, as well as some of their analogies in the setting of free factor complexes. The latter part is an ongoing project with Hyrungryul Baik and Dongryul Kim. [https://wuchenxi.github.io/graph.pdf Slides]<br />
<br />
<br />
===Kathryn Lindsey===<br />
<br />
"Slices of Thurston's Master Teapot"<br />
<br />
Thurston's Master Teapot is the closure of the set of all points $(z,\lambda) \in \mathbb{C} \times \mathbb{R}$ such that $\lambda$ is the growth rate of a critically periodic unimodal self-map of an interval and $z$ is a Galois conjugate of $\lambda$. I will present a new characterization of which points are in this set. This characterization gives a way to think of each horizontal slice of the Master Teapot as an analogy of the Mandelbrot set for a "restricted iterated function system." An application of this characterization is that the Master Teapot is not invariant under the map $(z,\lambda) \mapsto (-z,\lambda)$. This presentation is based on joint work with Chenxi Wu.<br />
<br />
<br />
===Daniel Thompson===<br />
<br />
"Strong ergodic properties for equilibrium states in non-positive curvature"<br />
<br />
Equilibrium states for geodesic flows over compact rank 1 manifolds and sufficiently regular potential functions were studied by Burns, Climenhaga, Fisher and myself. We showed that if the higher rank set does not carry full topological pressure then the equilibrium state is unique. In this talk, I will describe some recent results on the dynamical properties of these unique equilibrium states. We show that these equilibrium states have the Kolmogorov property (joint with Ben Call), and that approximations of the equilibrium states by regular closed geodesics asymptotically satisfy a type of Central Limit Theorem (joint with Tianyu Wang).<br />
<br />
===Giulio Tiozzo===<br />
<br />
"Metrics on trees, laminations, and core entropy"<br />
<br />
The notion of core entropy, defined as the entropy of the restriction to the Hubbard tree,<br />
was formulated by W. Thurston to produce a combinatorial invariant which captures the topological complexity of polynomial Julia sets and varies in a rich fractal way over parameter space.<br />
<br />
Core entropy has been so far defined by looking at a Markov partition on the tree, or by a combinatorial construction involving infinite graphs. We will introduce a new interpretation of core entropy based on metrics on trees and, dually, on transverse measures on laminations<br />
defining the Julia set.<br />
<br />
On the one hand, this will define a new notion of transverse measures on quadratic laminations, completing the analogy with laminations on surfaces on the “other side” of Sullivan’s dictionary.<br />
Moreover, this is also related to a question of Milnor on a piecewise-linear analogue of Thurston iteration on Teichmueller space.</div>Cwu367https://wiki.math.wisc.edu/index.php?title=Dynamics_Seminar_2020-2021&diff=20176Dynamics Seminar 2020-20212020-10-19T18:21:13Z<p>Cwu367: /* Fall 2020 */</p>
<hr />
<div>The [[Dynamics Seminar]] meets virtually on '''Wednesdays''' from '''2:30pm - 3:20pm'''.<br />
<br> <br />
For more information, contact Chenxi Wu.<br />
To sign up for the mailing list send an email from your wisc.edu address to dynamics+join@g-groups.wisc.edu<br />
[[Image:Hawk.jpg|thumb|300px]]<br />
<br />
<br />
== Fall 2020 ==<br />
<br />
{| cellpadding="8"<br />
!align="left" | date<br />
!align="left" | speaker<br />
!align="left" | title<br />
!align="left" | host(s)<br />
|-<br />
|September 16<br />
|Andrew Zimmer (Wisconsin)<br />
|An introduction to Anosov representations I<br />
| (local)<br />
|-<br />
|September 23<br />
|Andrew Zimmer (Wisconsin)<br />
|An introduction to Anosov representations II<br />
| (local)<br />
|-<br />
|September 30<br />
|Chenxi Wu (Wisconsin)<br />
|Asymptoic translation lengths on curve complexes and free factor complexes<br />
| (local)<br />
|-<br />
|October 7<br />
|Kathryn Lindsey (Boston College)<br />
|Slices of Thurston's Master Teapot<br />
| (local)<br />
|-<br />
|October 14<br />
|Daniel Thompson (Ohio State)<br />
|Strong ergodic properties for equilibrium states in non-positive curvature<br />
| (local)<br />
|-<br />
|October 21<br />
|Giulio Tiozzo (Toronto)<br />
|Metrics on trees, laminations, and core entropy<br />
| (local)<br />
|-<br />
|November 18<br />
|Nattalie Tamam (UCSD)<br />
|TBA<br />
| (local)<br />
|-<br />
|November 25<br />
|Tariq Osman (Queens)<br />
|TBA<br />
| (local)<br />
|-<br />
|December 2<br />
|Wenyu Pan (Chicago)<br />
|TBA<br />
| (local)<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
== Fall Abstracts ==<br />
<br />
===Andrew Zimmer===<br />
<br />
"An introduction to Anosov representations"<br />
<br />
Anosov representations are a special class of representations of finitely generated groups into Lie groups, which are defined using ideas from dynamics (namely, the theory of Anosov flows). In this talk, I will explain the definition (in a special case), give some examples, and describe some properties. I will focus on the case of representations into the general linear group where no background knowledge about Lie groups is required.<br />
<br />
<br />
===Chenxi Wu===<br />
<br />
"Asymptotic translation lengths on curve complexes and free factor complexes"<br />
<br />
The curve complex of a closed surface is a simplicial complex where the vertices are simple closed curves up to isotopy and faces are curves that are disjoint, and an analogy for the curve complex in the setting of Out(F_n) is the free factor complex. A pseudo-Anosov map induces a map from the curve graph to itself, and a basic question is to study the asymptotic translation length which is known to be a non-zero rational number. I will review some prior results on the study of this asymptotic translation length, as well as some of their analogies in the setting of free factor complexes. The latter part is an ongoing project with Hyrungryul Baik and Dongryul Kim. [https://wuchenxi.github.io/graph.pdf Slides]<br />
<br />
<br />
===Kathryn Lindsey===<br />
<br />
"Slices of Thurston's Master Teapot"<br />
<br />
Thurston's Master Teapot is the closure of the set of all points $(z,\lambda) \in \mathbb{C} \times \mathbb{R}$ such that $\lambda$ is the growth rate of a critically periodic unimodal self-map of an interval and $z$ is a Galois conjugate of $\lambda$. I will present a new characterization of which points are in this set. This characterization gives a way to think of each horizontal slice of the Master Teapot as an analogy of the Mandelbrot set for a "restricted iterated function system." An application of this characterization is that the Master Teapot is not invariant under the map $(z,\lambda) \mapsto (-z,\lambda)$. This presentation is based on joint work with Chenxi Wu.<br />
<br />
<br />
===Daniel Thompson===<br />
<br />
"Strong ergodic properties for equilibrium states in non-positive curvature"<br />
<br />
Equilibrium states for geodesic flows over compact rank 1 manifolds and sufficiently regular potential functions were studied by Burns, Climenhaga, Fisher and myself. We showed that if the higher rank set does not carry full topological pressure then the equilibrium state is unique. In this talk, I will describe some recent results on the dynamical properties of these unique equilibrium states. We show that these equilibrium states have the Kolmogorov property (joint with Ben Call), and that approximations of the equilibrium states by regular closed geodesics asymptotically satisfy a type of Central Limit Theorem (joint with Tianyu Wang).<br />
<br />
===Giulio Tiozzo===<br />
<br />
"Metrics on trees, laminations, and core entropy"<br />
<br />
The notion of core entropy, defined as the entropy of the restriction to the Hubbard tree,<br />
was formulated by W. Thurston to produce a combinatorial invariant which captures the topological complexity of polynomial Julia sets and varies in a rich fractal way over parameter space.<br />
<br />
Core entropy has been so far defined by looking at a Markov partition on the tree, or by a combinatorial construction involving infinite graphs. We will introduce a new interpretation of core entropy based on metrics on trees and, dually, on transverse measures on laminations<br />
defining the Julia set.<br />
<br />
On the one hand, this will define a new notion of transverse measures on quadratic laminations, completing the analogy with laminations on surfaces on the “other side” of Sullivan’s dictionary.<br />
Moreover, this is also related to a question of Milnor on a piecewise-linear analogue of Thurston iteration on Teichmueller space.</div>Cwu367https://wiki.math.wisc.edu/index.php?title=Dynamics_Seminar_2020-2021&diff=20172Dynamics Seminar 2020-20212020-10-19T13:13:56Z<p>Cwu367: /* Fall 2020 */</p>
<hr />
<div>The [[Dynamics Seminar]] meets virtually on '''Wednesdays''' from '''2:30pm - 3:20pm'''.<br />
<br> <br />
For more information, contact Chenxi Wu.<br />
To sign up for the mailing list send an email from your wisc.edu address to dynamics+join@g-groups.wisc.edu<br />
[[Image:Hawk.jpg|thumb|300px]]<br />
<br />
<br />
== Fall 2020 ==<br />
<br />
{| cellpadding="8"<br />
!align="left" | date<br />
!align="left" | speaker<br />
!align="left" | title<br />
!align="left" | host(s)<br />
|-<br />
|September 16<br />
|Andrew Zimmer (Wisconsin)<br />
|An introduction to Anosov representations I<br />
| (local)<br />
|-<br />
|September 23<br />
|Andrew Zimmer (Wisconsin)<br />
|An introduction to Anosov representations II<br />
| (local)<br />
|-<br />
|September 30<br />
|Chenxi Wu (Wisconsin)<br />
|Asymptoic translation lengths on curve complexes and free factor complexes<br />
| (local)<br />
|-<br />
|October 7<br />
|Kathryn Lindsey (Boston College)<br />
|Slices of Thurston's Master Teapot<br />
| (local)<br />
|-<br />
|October 14<br />
|Daniel Thompson (Ohio State)<br />
|Strong ergodic properties for equilibrium states in non-positive curvature<br />
| (local)<br />
|-<br />
|October 21<br />
|Giulio Tiozzo (Toronto)<br />
|Metrics on trees, laminations, and core entropy<br />
| (local)<br />
|-<br />
|November 18<br />
|Nattalie Tamam (UCSD)<br />
|TBA<br />
| (local)<br />
|-<br />
|December 2<br />
|Wenyu Pan (Chicago)<br />
|TBA<br />
| (local)<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
== Fall Abstracts ==<br />
<br />
===Andrew Zimmer===<br />
<br />
"An introduction to Anosov representations"<br />
<br />
Anosov representations are a special class of representations of finitely generated groups into Lie groups, which are defined using ideas from dynamics (namely, the theory of Anosov flows). In this talk, I will explain the definition (in a special case), give some examples, and describe some properties. I will focus on the case of representations into the general linear group where no background knowledge about Lie groups is required.<br />
<br />
<br />
===Chenxi Wu===<br />
<br />
"Asymptotic translation lengths on curve complexes and free factor complexes"<br />
<br />
The curve complex of a closed surface is a simplicial complex where the vertices are simple closed curves up to isotopy and faces are curves that are disjoint, and an analogy for the curve complex in the setting of Out(F_n) is the free factor complex. A pseudo-Anosov map induces a map from the curve graph to itself, and a basic question is to study the asymptotic translation length which is known to be a non-zero rational number. I will review some prior results on the study of this asymptotic translation length, as well as some of their analogies in the setting of free factor complexes. The latter part is an ongoing project with Hyrungryul Baik and Dongryul Kim. [https://wuchenxi.github.io/graph.pdf Slides]<br />
<br />
<br />
===Kathryn Lindsey===<br />
<br />
"Slices of Thurston's Master Teapot"<br />
<br />
Thurston's Master Teapot is the closure of the set of all points $(z,\lambda) \in \mathbb{C} \times \mathbb{R}$ such that $\lambda$ is the growth rate of a critically periodic unimodal self-map of an interval and $z$ is a Galois conjugate of $\lambda$. I will present a new characterization of which points are in this set. This characterization gives a way to think of each horizontal slice of the Master Teapot as an analogy of the Mandelbrot set for a "restricted iterated function system." An application of this characterization is that the Master Teapot is not invariant under the map $(z,\lambda) \mapsto (-z,\lambda)$. This presentation is based on joint work with Chenxi Wu.<br />
<br />
<br />
===Daniel Thompson===<br />
<br />
"Strong ergodic properties for equilibrium states in non-positive curvature"<br />
<br />
Equilibrium states for geodesic flows over compact rank 1 manifolds and sufficiently regular potential functions were studied by Burns, Climenhaga, Fisher and myself. We showed that if the higher rank set does not carry full topological pressure then the equilibrium state is unique. In this talk, I will describe some recent results on the dynamical properties of these unique equilibrium states. We show that these equilibrium states have the Kolmogorov property (joint with Ben Call), and that approximations of the equilibrium states by regular closed geodesics asymptotically satisfy a type of Central Limit Theorem (joint with Tianyu Wang).<br />
<br />
===Giulio Tiozzo===<br />
<br />
"Metrics on trees, laminations, and core entropy"<br />
<br />
The notion of core entropy, defined as the entropy of the restriction to the Hubbard tree,<br />
was formulated by W. Thurston to produce a combinatorial invariant which captures the topological complexity of polynomial Julia sets and varies in a rich fractal way over parameter space.<br />
<br />
Core entropy has been so far defined by looking at a Markov partition on the tree, or by a combinatorial construction involving infinite graphs. We will introduce a new interpretation of core entropy based on metrics on trees and, dually, on transverse measures on laminations<br />
defining the Julia set.<br />
<br />
On the one hand, this will define a new notion of transverse measures on quadratic laminations, completing the analogy with laminations on surfaces on the “other side” of Sullivan’s dictionary.<br />
Moreover, this is also related to a question of Milnor on a piecewise-linear analogue of Thurston iteration on Teichmueller space.</div>Cwu367https://wiki.math.wisc.edu/index.php?title=Dynamics_Seminar_2020-2021&diff=20171Dynamics Seminar 2020-20212020-10-19T13:13:25Z<p>Cwu367: /* Fall Abstracts */</p>
<hr />
<div>The [[Dynamics Seminar]] meets virtually on '''Wednesdays''' from '''2:30pm - 3:20pm'''.<br />
<br> <br />
For more information, contact Chenxi Wu.<br />
To sign up for the mailing list send an email from your wisc.edu address to dynamics+join@g-groups.wisc.edu<br />
[[Image:Hawk.jpg|thumb|300px]]<br />
<br />
<br />
== Fall 2020 ==<br />
<br />
{| cellpadding="8"<br />
!align="left" | date<br />
!align="left" | speaker<br />
!align="left" | title<br />
!align="left" | host(s)<br />
|-<br />
|September 16<br />
|Andrew Zimmer (Wisconsin)<br />
|An introduction to Anosov representations I<br />
| (local)<br />
|-<br />
|September 23<br />
|Andrew Zimmer (Wisconsin)<br />
|An introduction to Anosov representations II<br />
| (local)<br />
|-<br />
|September 30<br />
|Chenxi Wu (Wisconsin)<br />
|Asymptoic translation lengths on curve complexes and free factor complexes<br />
| (local)<br />
|-<br />
|October 7<br />
|Kathryn Lindsey (Boston College)<br />
|Slices of Thurston's Master Teapot<br />
| (local)<br />
|-<br />
|October 14<br />
|Daniel Thompson (Ohio State)<br />
|Strong ergodic properties for equilibrium states in non-positive curvature<br />
| (local)<br />
|-<br />
|October 21<br />
|Giulio Tiozzo (Toronto)<br />
|TBA<br />
| (local)<br />
|-<br />
|November 18<br />
|Nattalie Tamam (UCSD)<br />
|TBA<br />
| (local)<br />
|-<br />
|December 2<br />
|Wenyu Pan (Chicago)<br />
|TBA<br />
| (local)<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
== Fall Abstracts ==<br />
<br />
===Andrew Zimmer===<br />
<br />
"An introduction to Anosov representations"<br />
<br />
Anosov representations are a special class of representations of finitely generated groups into Lie groups, which are defined using ideas from dynamics (namely, the theory of Anosov flows). In this talk, I will explain the definition (in a special case), give some examples, and describe some properties. I will focus on the case of representations into the general linear group where no background knowledge about Lie groups is required.<br />
<br />
<br />
===Chenxi Wu===<br />
<br />
"Asymptotic translation lengths on curve complexes and free factor complexes"<br />
<br />
The curve complex of a closed surface is a simplicial complex where the vertices are simple closed curves up to isotopy and faces are curves that are disjoint, and an analogy for the curve complex in the setting of Out(F_n) is the free factor complex. A pseudo-Anosov map induces a map from the curve graph to itself, and a basic question is to study the asymptotic translation length which is known to be a non-zero rational number. I will review some prior results on the study of this asymptotic translation length, as well as some of their analogies in the setting of free factor complexes. The latter part is an ongoing project with Hyrungryul Baik and Dongryul Kim. [https://wuchenxi.github.io/graph.pdf Slides]<br />
<br />
<br />
===Kathryn Lindsey===<br />
<br />
"Slices of Thurston's Master Teapot"<br />
<br />
Thurston's Master Teapot is the closure of the set of all points $(z,\lambda) \in \mathbb{C} \times \mathbb{R}$ such that $\lambda$ is the growth rate of a critically periodic unimodal self-map of an interval and $z$ is a Galois conjugate of $\lambda$. I will present a new characterization of which points are in this set. This characterization gives a way to think of each horizontal slice of the Master Teapot as an analogy of the Mandelbrot set for a "restricted iterated function system." An application of this characterization is that the Master Teapot is not invariant under the map $(z,\lambda) \mapsto (-z,\lambda)$. This presentation is based on joint work with Chenxi Wu.<br />
<br />
<br />
===Daniel Thompson===<br />
<br />
"Strong ergodic properties for equilibrium states in non-positive curvature"<br />
<br />
Equilibrium states for geodesic flows over compact rank 1 manifolds and sufficiently regular potential functions were studied by Burns, Climenhaga, Fisher and myself. We showed that if the higher rank set does not carry full topological pressure then the equilibrium state is unique. In this talk, I will describe some recent results on the dynamical properties of these unique equilibrium states. We show that these equilibrium states have the Kolmogorov property (joint with Ben Call), and that approximations of the equilibrium states by regular closed geodesics asymptotically satisfy a type of Central Limit Theorem (joint with Tianyu Wang).<br />
<br />
===Giulio Tiozzo===<br />
<br />
"Metrics on trees, laminations, and core entropy"<br />
<br />
The notion of core entropy, defined as the entropy of the restriction to the Hubbard tree,<br />
was formulated by W. Thurston to produce a combinatorial invariant which captures the topological complexity of polynomial Julia sets and varies in a rich fractal way over parameter space.<br />
<br />
Core entropy has been so far defined by looking at a Markov partition on the tree, or by a combinatorial construction involving infinite graphs. We will introduce a new interpretation of core entropy based on metrics on trees and, dually, on transverse measures on laminations<br />
defining the Julia set.<br />
<br />
On the one hand, this will define a new notion of transverse measures on quadratic laminations, completing the analogy with laminations on surfaces on the “other side” of Sullivan’s dictionary.<br />
Moreover, this is also related to a question of Milnor on a piecewise-linear analogue of Thurston iteration on Teichmueller space.</div>Cwu367https://wiki.math.wisc.edu/index.php?title=Dynamics_Seminar_2020-2021&diff=20145Dynamics Seminar 2020-20212020-10-15T18:06:04Z<p>Cwu367: /* Fall 2020 */</p>
<hr />
<div>The [[Dynamics Seminar]] meets virtually on '''Wednesdays''' from '''2:30pm - 3:20pm'''.<br />
<br> <br />
For more information, contact Chenxi Wu.<br />
To sign up for the mailing list send an email from your wisc.edu address to dynamics+join@g-groups.wisc.edu<br />
[[Image:Hawk.jpg|thumb|300px]]<br />
<br />
<br />
== Fall 2020 ==<br />
<br />
{| cellpadding="8"<br />
!align="left" | date<br />
!align="left" | speaker<br />
!align="left" | title<br />
!align="left" | host(s)<br />
|-<br />
|September 16<br />
|Andrew Zimmer (Wisconsin)<br />
|An introduction to Anosov representations I<br />
| (local)<br />
|-<br />
|September 23<br />
|Andrew Zimmer (Wisconsin)<br />
|An introduction to Anosov representations II<br />
| (local)<br />
|-<br />
|September 30<br />
|Chenxi Wu (Wisconsin)<br />
|Asymptoic translation lengths on curve complexes and free factor complexes<br />
| (local)<br />
|-<br />
|October 7<br />
|Kathryn Lindsey (Boston College)<br />
|Slices of Thurston's Master Teapot<br />
| (local)<br />
|-<br />
|October 14<br />
|Daniel Thompson (Ohio State)<br />
|Strong ergodic properties for equilibrium states in non-positive curvature<br />
| (local)<br />
|-<br />
|October 21<br />
|Giulio Tiozzo (Toronto)<br />
|TBA<br />
| (local)<br />
|-<br />
|November 18<br />
|Nattalie Tamam (UCSD)<br />
|TBA<br />
| (local)<br />
|-<br />
|December 2<br />
|Wenyu Pan (Chicago)<br />
|TBA<br />
| (local)<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
== Fall Abstracts ==<br />
<br />
===Andrew Zimmer===<br />
<br />
"An introduction to Anosov representations"<br />
<br />
Anosov representations are a special class of representations of finitely generated groups into Lie groups, which are defined using ideas from dynamics (namely, the theory of Anosov flows). In this talk, I will explain the definition (in a special case), give some examples, and describe some properties. I will focus on the case of representations into the general linear group where no background knowledge about Lie groups is required.<br />
<br />
<br />
===Chenxi Wu===<br />
<br />
"Asymptotic translation lengths on curve complexes and free factor complexes"<br />
<br />
The curve complex of a closed surface is a simplicial complex where the vertices are simple closed curves up to isotopy and faces are curves that are disjoint, and an analogy for the curve complex in the setting of Out(F_n) is the free factor complex. A pseudo-Anosov map induces a map from the curve graph to itself, and a basic question is to study the asymptotic translation length which is known to be a non-zero rational number. I will review some prior results on the study of this asymptotic translation length, as well as some of their analogies in the setting of free factor complexes. The latter part is an ongoing project with Hyrungryul Baik and Dongryul Kim. [https://wuchenxi.github.io/graph.pdf Slides]<br />
<br />
<br />
===Kathryn Lindsey===<br />
<br />
"Slices of Thurston's Master Teapot"<br />
<br />
Thurston's Master Teapot is the closure of the set of all points $(z,\lambda) \in \mathbb{C} \times \mathbb{R}$ such that $\lambda$ is the growth rate of a critically periodic unimodal self-map of an interval and $z$ is a Galois conjugate of $\lambda$. I will present a new characterization of which points are in this set. This characterization gives a way to think of each horizontal slice of the Master Teapot as an analogy of the Mandelbrot set for a "restricted iterated function system." An application of this characterization is that the Master Teapot is not invariant under the map $(z,\lambda) \mapsto (-z,\lambda)$. This presentation is based on joint work with Chenxi Wu.<br />
<br />
<br />
===Daniel Thompson===<br />
<br />
"Strong ergodic properties for equilibrium states in non-positive curvature"<br />
<br />
Equilibrium states for geodesic flows over compact rank 1 manifolds and sufficiently regular potential functions were studied by Burns, Climenhaga, Fisher and myself. We showed that if the higher rank set does not carry full topological pressure then the equilibrium state is unique. In this talk, I will describe some recent results on the dynamical properties of these unique equilibrium states. We show that these equilibrium states have the Kolmogorov property (joint with Ben Call), and that approximations of the equilibrium states by regular closed geodesics asymptotically satisfy a type of Central Limit Theorem (joint with Tianyu Wang).</div>Cwu367https://wiki.math.wisc.edu/index.php?title=Dynamics_Seminar_2020-2021&diff=20136Dynamics Seminar 2020-20212020-10-14T17:00:00Z<p>Cwu367: /* Fall 2020 */</p>
<hr />
<div>The [[Dynamics Seminar]] meets virtually on '''Wednesdays''' from '''2:30pm - 3:20pm'''.<br />
<br> <br />
For more information, contact Chenxi Wu.<br />
To sign up for the mailing list send an email from your wisc.edu address to dynamics+join@g-groups.wisc.edu<br />
[[Image:Hawk.jpg|thumb|300px]]<br />
<br />
<br />
== Fall 2020 ==<br />
<br />
{| cellpadding="8"<br />
!align="left" | date<br />
!align="left" | speaker<br />
!align="left" | title<br />
!align="left" | host(s)<br />
|-<br />
|September 16<br />
|Andrew Zimmer (Wisconsin)<br />
|An introduction to Anosov representations I<br />
| (local)<br />
|-<br />
|September 23<br />
|Andrew Zimmer (Wisconsin)<br />
|An introduction to Anosov representations II<br />
| (local)<br />
|-<br />
|September 30<br />
|Chenxi Wu (Wisconsin)<br />
|Asymptoic translation lengths on curve complexes and free factor complexes<br />
| (local)<br />
|-<br />
|October 7<br />
|Kathryn Lindsey (Boston College)<br />
|Slices of Thurston's Master Teapot<br />
| (local)<br />
|-<br />
|October 14<br />
|Daniel Thompson (Ohio State)<br />
|Strong ergodic properties for equilibrium states in non-positive curvature<br />
| (local)<br />
|-<br />
|October 21<br />
|Giulio Tiozzo (Toronto)<br />
|TBA<br />
| (local)<br />
|-<br />
|December 2<br />
|Wenyu Pan (Chicago)<br />
|TBA<br />
| (local)<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
== Fall Abstracts ==<br />
<br />
===Andrew Zimmer===<br />
<br />
"An introduction to Anosov representations"<br />
<br />
Anosov representations are a special class of representations of finitely generated groups into Lie groups, which are defined using ideas from dynamics (namely, the theory of Anosov flows). In this talk, I will explain the definition (in a special case), give some examples, and describe some properties. I will focus on the case of representations into the general linear group where no background knowledge about Lie groups is required.<br />
<br />
<br />
===Chenxi Wu===<br />
<br />
"Asymptotic translation lengths on curve complexes and free factor complexes"<br />
<br />
The curve complex of a closed surface is a simplicial complex where the vertices are simple closed curves up to isotopy and faces are curves that are disjoint, and an analogy for the curve complex in the setting of Out(F_n) is the free factor complex. A pseudo-Anosov map induces a map from the curve graph to itself, and a basic question is to study the asymptotic translation length which is known to be a non-zero rational number. I will review some prior results on the study of this asymptotic translation length, as well as some of their analogies in the setting of free factor complexes. The latter part is an ongoing project with Hyrungryul Baik and Dongryul Kim. [https://wuchenxi.github.io/graph.pdf Slides]<br />
<br />
<br />
===Kathryn Lindsey===<br />
<br />
"Slices of Thurston's Master Teapot"<br />
<br />
Thurston's Master Teapot is the closure of the set of all points $(z,\lambda) \in \mathbb{C} \times \mathbb{R}$ such that $\lambda$ is the growth rate of a critically periodic unimodal self-map of an interval and $z$ is a Galois conjugate of $\lambda$. I will present a new characterization of which points are in this set. This characterization gives a way to think of each horizontal slice of the Master Teapot as an analogy of the Mandelbrot set for a "restricted iterated function system." An application of this characterization is that the Master Teapot is not invariant under the map $(z,\lambda) \mapsto (-z,\lambda)$. This presentation is based on joint work with Chenxi Wu.<br />
<br />
<br />
===Daniel Thompson===<br />
<br />
"Strong ergodic properties for equilibrium states in non-positive curvature"<br />
<br />
Equilibrium states for geodesic flows over compact rank 1 manifolds and sufficiently regular potential functions were studied by Burns, Climenhaga, Fisher and myself. We showed that if the higher rank set does not carry full topological pressure then the equilibrium state is unique. In this talk, I will describe some recent results on the dynamical properties of these unique equilibrium states. We show that these equilibrium states have the Kolmogorov property (joint with Ben Call), and that approximations of the equilibrium states by regular closed geodesics asymptotically satisfy a type of Central Limit Theorem (joint with Tianyu Wang).</div>Cwu367https://wiki.math.wisc.edu/index.php?title=Dynamics_Seminar_2020-2021&diff=20134Dynamics Seminar 2020-20212020-10-14T14:21:42Z<p>Cwu367: /* Fall 2020 */</p>
<hr />
<div>The [[Dynamics Seminar]] meets virtually on '''Wednesdays''' from '''2:30pm - 3:20pm'''.<br />
<br> <br />
For more information, contact Chenxi Wu.<br />
To sign up for the mailing list send an email from your wisc.edu address to dynamics+join@g-groups.wisc.edu<br />
[[Image:Hawk.jpg|thumb|300px]]<br />
<br />
<br />
== Fall 2020 ==<br />
<br />
{| cellpadding="8"<br />
!align="left" | date<br />
!align="left" | speaker<br />
!align="left" | title<br />
!align="left" | host(s)<br />
|-<br />
|September 16<br />
|Andrew Zimmer (Wisconsin)<br />
|An introduction to Anosov representations I<br />
| (local)<br />
|-<br />
|September 23<br />
|Andrew Zimmer (Wisconsin)<br />
|An introduction to Anosov representations II<br />
| (local)<br />
|-<br />
|September 30<br />
|Chenxi Wu (Wisconsin)<br />
|Asymptoic translation lengths on curve complexes and free factor complexes<br />
| (local)<br />
|-<br />
|October 7<br />
|Kathryn Lindsey (Boston College)<br />
|Slices of Thurston's Master Teapot<br />
| (local)<br />
|-<br />
|October 14<br />
|Daniel Thompson (Ohio State)<br />
|Strong ergodic properties for equilibrium states in non-positive curvature<br />
| (local)<br />
|-<br />
|October 21<br />
|Giulio Tiozzo (Toronto)<br />
|TBA<br />
| (local)<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
== Fall Abstracts ==<br />
<br />
===Andrew Zimmer===<br />
<br />
"An introduction to Anosov representations"<br />
<br />
Anosov representations are a special class of representations of finitely generated groups into Lie groups, which are defined using ideas from dynamics (namely, the theory of Anosov flows). In this talk, I will explain the definition (in a special case), give some examples, and describe some properties. I will focus on the case of representations into the general linear group where no background knowledge about Lie groups is required.<br />
<br />
<br />
===Chenxi Wu===<br />
<br />
"Asymptotic translation lengths on curve complexes and free factor complexes"<br />
<br />
The curve complex of a closed surface is a simplicial complex where the vertices are simple closed curves up to isotopy and faces are curves that are disjoint, and an analogy for the curve complex in the setting of Out(F_n) is the free factor complex. A pseudo-Anosov map induces a map from the curve graph to itself, and a basic question is to study the asymptotic translation length which is known to be a non-zero rational number. I will review some prior results on the study of this asymptotic translation length, as well as some of their analogies in the setting of free factor complexes. The latter part is an ongoing project with Hyrungryul Baik and Dongryul Kim. [https://wuchenxi.github.io/graph.pdf Slides]<br />
<br />
<br />
===Kathryn Lindsey===<br />
<br />
"Slices of Thurston's Master Teapot"<br />
<br />
Thurston's Master Teapot is the closure of the set of all points $(z,\lambda) \in \mathbb{C} \times \mathbb{R}$ such that $\lambda$ is the growth rate of a critically periodic unimodal self-map of an interval and $z$ is a Galois conjugate of $\lambda$. I will present a new characterization of which points are in this set. This characterization gives a way to think of each horizontal slice of the Master Teapot as an analogy of the Mandelbrot set for a "restricted iterated function system." An application of this characterization is that the Master Teapot is not invariant under the map $(z,\lambda) \mapsto (-z,\lambda)$. This presentation is based on joint work with Chenxi Wu.<br />
<br />
<br />
===Daniel Thompson===<br />
<br />
"Strong ergodic properties for equilibrium states in non-positive curvature"<br />
<br />
Equilibrium states for geodesic flows over compact rank 1 manifolds and sufficiently regular potential functions were studied by Burns, Climenhaga, Fisher and myself. We showed that if the higher rank set does not carry full topological pressure then the equilibrium state is unique. In this talk, I will describe some recent results on the dynamical properties of these unique equilibrium states. We show that these equilibrium states have the Kolmogorov property (joint with Ben Call), and that approximations of the equilibrium states by regular closed geodesics asymptotically satisfy a type of Central Limit Theorem (joint with Tianyu Wang).</div>Cwu367https://wiki.math.wisc.edu/index.php?title=Dynamics_Seminar_2020-2021&diff=20133Dynamics Seminar 2020-20212020-10-14T14:20:14Z<p>Cwu367: /* Fall 2020 */</p>
<hr />
<div>The [[Dynamics Seminar]] meets virtually on '''Wednesdays''' from '''2:30pm - 3:20pm'''.<br />
<br> <br />
For more information, contact Chenxi Wu.<br />
To sign up for the mailing list send an email from your wisc.edu address to dynamics+join@g-groups.wisc.edu<br />
[[Image:Hawk.jpg|thumb|300px]]<br />
<br />
<br />
== Fall 2020 ==<br />
<br />
{| cellpadding="8"<br />
!align="left" | date<br />
!align="left" | speaker<br />
!align="left" | title<br />
!align="left" | host(s)<br />
|-<br />
|September 16<br />
|Andrew Zimmer (Wisconsin)<br />
|An introduction to Anosov representations I<br />
| (local)<br />
|-<br />
|September 23<br />
|Andrew Zimmer (Wisconsin)<br />
|An introduction to Anosov representations II<br />
| (local)<br />
|-<br />
|September 30<br />
|Chenxi Wu (Wisconsin)<br />
|Asymptoic translation lengths on curve complexes and free factor complexes<br />
| (local)<br />
|-<br />
|October 7<br />
|Kathryn Lindsey<br />
|Slices of Thurston's Master Teapot<br />
| (Boston College)<br />
|-<br />
|October 14<br />
|Daniel Thompson<br />
|Strong ergodic properties for equilibrium states in non-positive curvature<br />
| (Ohio State)<br />
|-<br />
|October 21<br />
|Giulio Tiozzo<br />
|TBA<br />
| (Toronto)<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
== Fall Abstracts ==<br />
<br />
===Andrew Zimmer===<br />
<br />
"An introduction to Anosov representations"<br />
<br />
Anosov representations are a special class of representations of finitely generated groups into Lie groups, which are defined using ideas from dynamics (namely, the theory of Anosov flows). In this talk, I will explain the definition (in a special case), give some examples, and describe some properties. I will focus on the case of representations into the general linear group where no background knowledge about Lie groups is required.<br />
<br />
<br />
===Chenxi Wu===<br />
<br />
"Asymptotic translation lengths on curve complexes and free factor complexes"<br />
<br />
The curve complex of a closed surface is a simplicial complex where the vertices are simple closed curves up to isotopy and faces are curves that are disjoint, and an analogy for the curve complex in the setting of Out(F_n) is the free factor complex. A pseudo-Anosov map induces a map from the curve graph to itself, and a basic question is to study the asymptotic translation length which is known to be a non-zero rational number. I will review some prior results on the study of this asymptotic translation length, as well as some of their analogies in the setting of free factor complexes. The latter part is an ongoing project with Hyrungryul Baik and Dongryul Kim. [https://wuchenxi.github.io/graph.pdf Slides]<br />
<br />
<br />
===Kathryn Lindsey===<br />
<br />
"Slices of Thurston's Master Teapot"<br />
<br />
Thurston's Master Teapot is the closure of the set of all points $(z,\lambda) \in \mathbb{C} \times \mathbb{R}$ such that $\lambda$ is the growth rate of a critically periodic unimodal self-map of an interval and $z$ is a Galois conjugate of $\lambda$. I will present a new characterization of which points are in this set. This characterization gives a way to think of each horizontal slice of the Master Teapot as an analogy of the Mandelbrot set for a "restricted iterated function system." An application of this characterization is that the Master Teapot is not invariant under the map $(z,\lambda) \mapsto (-z,\lambda)$. This presentation is based on joint work with Chenxi Wu.<br />
<br />
<br />
===Daniel Thompson===<br />
<br />
"Strong ergodic properties for equilibrium states in non-positive curvature"<br />
<br />
Equilibrium states for geodesic flows over compact rank 1 manifolds and sufficiently regular potential functions were studied by Burns, Climenhaga, Fisher and myself. We showed that if the higher rank set does not carry full topological pressure then the equilibrium state is unique. In this talk, I will describe some recent results on the dynamical properties of these unique equilibrium states. We show that these equilibrium states have the Kolmogorov property (joint with Ben Call), and that approximations of the equilibrium states by regular closed geodesics asymptotically satisfy a type of Central Limit Theorem (joint with Tianyu Wang).</div>Cwu367https://wiki.math.wisc.edu/index.php?title=Dynamics_Seminar_2020-2021&diff=20129Dynamics Seminar 2020-20212020-10-13T20:29:40Z<p>Cwu367: /* Fall 2020 */</p>
<hr />
<div>The [[Dynamics Seminar]] meets virtually on '''Wednesdays''' from '''2:30pm - 3:20pm'''.<br />
<br> <br />
For more information, contact Chenxi Wu.<br />
To sign up for the mailing list send an email from your wisc.edu address to dynamics+join@g-groups.wisc.edu<br />
[[Image:Hawk.jpg|thumb|300px]]<br />
<br />
<br />
== Fall 2020 ==<br />
<br />
{| cellpadding="8"<br />
!align="left" | date<br />
!align="left" | speaker<br />
!align="left" | title<br />
!align="left" | host(s)<br />
|-<br />
|September 16<br />
|Andrew Zimmer (Wisconsin)<br />
|An introduction to Anosov representations I<br />
| (local)<br />
|-<br />
|September 23<br />
|Andrew Zimmer (Wisconsin)<br />
|An introduction to Anosov representations II<br />
| (local)<br />
|-<br />
|September 30<br />
|Chenxi Wu (Wisconsin)<br />
|Asymptoic translation lengths on curve complexes and free factor complexes<br />
| (local)<br />
|-<br />
|October 7<br />
|Kathryn Lindsey<br />
|Slices of Thurston's Master Teapot<br />
| (Boston College)<br />
|-<br />
|October 14<br />
|Daniel Thompson<br />
|Strong ergodic properties for equilibrium states in non-positive curvature<br />
| (Ohio State)<br />
|}<br />
<br />
== Fall Abstracts ==<br />
<br />
===Andrew Zimmer===<br />
<br />
"An introduction to Anosov representations"<br />
<br />
Anosov representations are a special class of representations of finitely generated groups into Lie groups, which are defined using ideas from dynamics (namely, the theory of Anosov flows). In this talk, I will explain the definition (in a special case), give some examples, and describe some properties. I will focus on the case of representations into the general linear group where no background knowledge about Lie groups is required.<br />
<br />
<br />
===Chenxi Wu===<br />
<br />
"Asymptotic translation lengths on curve complexes and free factor complexes"<br />
<br />
The curve complex of a closed surface is a simplicial complex where the vertices are simple closed curves up to isotopy and faces are curves that are disjoint, and an analogy for the curve complex in the setting of Out(F_n) is the free factor complex. A pseudo-Anosov map induces a map from the curve graph to itself, and a basic question is to study the asymptotic translation length which is known to be a non-zero rational number. I will review some prior results on the study of this asymptotic translation length, as well as some of their analogies in the setting of free factor complexes. The latter part is an ongoing project with Hyrungryul Baik and Dongryul Kim. [https://wuchenxi.github.io/graph.pdf Slides]<br />
<br />
<br />
===Kathryn Lindsey===<br />
<br />
"Slices of Thurston's Master Teapot"<br />
<br />
Thurston's Master Teapot is the closure of the set of all points $(z,\lambda) \in \mathbb{C} \times \mathbb{R}$ such that $\lambda$ is the growth rate of a critically periodic unimodal self-map of an interval and $z$ is a Galois conjugate of $\lambda$. I will present a new characterization of which points are in this set. This characterization gives a way to think of each horizontal slice of the Master Teapot as an analogy of the Mandelbrot set for a "restricted iterated function system." An application of this characterization is that the Master Teapot is not invariant under the map $(z,\lambda) \mapsto (-z,\lambda)$. This presentation is based on joint work with Chenxi Wu.<br />
<br />
<br />
===Daniel Thompson===<br />
<br />
"Strong ergodic properties for equilibrium states in non-positive curvature"<br />
<br />
Equilibrium states for geodesic flows over compact rank 1 manifolds and sufficiently regular potential functions were studied by Burns, Climenhaga, Fisher and myself. We showed that if the higher rank set does not carry full topological pressure then the equilibrium state is unique. In this talk, I will describe some recent results on the dynamical properties of these unique equilibrium states. We show that these equilibrium states have the Kolmogorov property (joint with Ben Call), and that approximations of the equilibrium states by regular closed geodesics asymptotically satisfy a type of Central Limit Theorem (joint with Tianyu Wang).</div>Cwu367https://wiki.math.wisc.edu/index.php?title=Dynamics_Seminar_2020-2021&diff=20128Dynamics Seminar 2020-20212020-10-13T20:29:05Z<p>Cwu367: /* Fall Abstracts */</p>
<hr />
<div>The [[Dynamics Seminar]] meets virtually on '''Wednesdays''' from '''2:30pm - 3:20pm'''.<br />
<br> <br />
For more information, contact Chenxi Wu.<br />
To sign up for the mailing list send an email from your wisc.edu address to dynamics+join@g-groups.wisc.edu<br />
[[Image:Hawk.jpg|thumb|300px]]<br />
<br />
<br />
== Fall 2020 ==<br />
<br />
{| cellpadding="8"<br />
!align="left" | date<br />
!align="left" | speaker<br />
!align="left" | title<br />
!align="left" | host(s)<br />
|-<br />
|September 16<br />
|Andrew Zimmer (Wisconsin)<br />
|An introduction to Anosov representations I<br />
| (local)<br />
|-<br />
|September 23<br />
|Andrew Zimmer (Wisconsin)<br />
|An introduction to Anosov representations II<br />
| (local)<br />
|-<br />
|September 30<br />
|Chenxi Wu (Wisconsin)<br />
|Asymptoic translation lengths on curve complexes and free factor complexes<br />
| (local)<br />
|-<br />
|October 7<br />
|Kathryn Lindsey<br />
|Slices of Thurston's Master Teapot<br />
| (Boston College)<br />
|-<br />
|October 14<br />
|Daniel Thompson<br />
|TBA<br />
| (Ohio State)<br />
|}<br />
<br />
== Fall Abstracts ==<br />
<br />
===Andrew Zimmer===<br />
<br />
"An introduction to Anosov representations"<br />
<br />
Anosov representations are a special class of representations of finitely generated groups into Lie groups, which are defined using ideas from dynamics (namely, the theory of Anosov flows). In this talk, I will explain the definition (in a special case), give some examples, and describe some properties. I will focus on the case of representations into the general linear group where no background knowledge about Lie groups is required.<br />
<br />
<br />
===Chenxi Wu===<br />
<br />
"Asymptotic translation lengths on curve complexes and free factor complexes"<br />
<br />
The curve complex of a closed surface is a simplicial complex where the vertices are simple closed curves up to isotopy and faces are curves that are disjoint, and an analogy for the curve complex in the setting of Out(F_n) is the free factor complex. A pseudo-Anosov map induces a map from the curve graph to itself, and a basic question is to study the asymptotic translation length which is known to be a non-zero rational number. I will review some prior results on the study of this asymptotic translation length, as well as some of their analogies in the setting of free factor complexes. The latter part is an ongoing project with Hyrungryul Baik and Dongryul Kim. [https://wuchenxi.github.io/graph.pdf Slides]<br />
<br />
<br />
===Kathryn Lindsey===<br />
<br />
"Slices of Thurston's Master Teapot"<br />
<br />
Thurston's Master Teapot is the closure of the set of all points $(z,\lambda) \in \mathbb{C} \times \mathbb{R}$ such that $\lambda$ is the growth rate of a critically periodic unimodal self-map of an interval and $z$ is a Galois conjugate of $\lambda$. I will present a new characterization of which points are in this set. This characterization gives a way to think of each horizontal slice of the Master Teapot as an analogy of the Mandelbrot set for a "restricted iterated function system." An application of this characterization is that the Master Teapot is not invariant under the map $(z,\lambda) \mapsto (-z,\lambda)$. This presentation is based on joint work with Chenxi Wu.<br />
<br />
<br />
===Daniel Thompson===<br />
<br />
"Strong ergodic properties for equilibrium states in non-positive curvature"<br />
<br />
Equilibrium states for geodesic flows over compact rank 1 manifolds and sufficiently regular potential functions were studied by Burns, Climenhaga, Fisher and myself. We showed that if the higher rank set does not carry full topological pressure then the equilibrium state is unique. In this talk, I will describe some recent results on the dynamical properties of these unique equilibrium states. We show that these equilibrium states have the Kolmogorov property (joint with Ben Call), and that approximations of the equilibrium states by regular closed geodesics asymptotically satisfy a type of Central Limit Theorem (joint with Tianyu Wang).</div>Cwu367https://wiki.math.wisc.edu/index.php?title=Dynamics_Seminar_2020-2021&diff=20057Dynamics Seminar 2020-20212020-10-01T21:37:36Z<p>Cwu367: /* Kathryn Lindsey */</p>
<hr />
<div>The [[Dynamics Seminar]] meets virtually on '''Wednesdays''' from '''2:30pm - 3:20pm'''.<br />
<br> <br />
For more information, contact Chenxi Wu.<br />
To sign up for the mailing list send an email from your wisc.edu address to dynamics+join@g-groups.wisc.edu<br />
[[Image:Hawk.jpg|thumb|300px]]<br />
<br />
<br />
== Fall 2020 ==<br />
<br />
{| cellpadding="8"<br />
!align="left" | date<br />
!align="left" | speaker<br />
!align="left" | title<br />
!align="left" | host(s)<br />
|-<br />
|September 16<br />
|Andrew Zimmer (Wisconsin)<br />
|An introduction to Anosov representations I<br />
| (local)<br />
|-<br />
|September 23<br />
|Andrew Zimmer (Wisconsin)<br />
|An introduction to Anosov representations II<br />
| (local)<br />
|-<br />
|September 30<br />
|Chenxi Wu (Wisconsin)<br />
|Asymptoic translation lengths on curve complexes and free factor complexes<br />
| (local)<br />
|-<br />
|October 7<br />
|Kathryn Lindsey<br />
|Slices of Thurston's Master Teapot<br />
| (Boston College)<br />
|-<br />
|October 14<br />
|Daniel Thompson<br />
|TBA<br />
| (Ohio State)<br />
|}<br />
<br />
== Fall Abstracts ==<br />
<br />
===Andrew Zimmer===<br />
<br />
"An introduction to Anosov representations"<br />
<br />
Anosov representations are a special class of representations of finitely generated groups into Lie groups, which are defined using ideas from dynamics (namely, the theory of Anosov flows). In this talk, I will explain the definition (in a special case), give some examples, and describe some properties. I will focus on the case of representations into the general linear group where no background knowledge about Lie groups is required.<br />
<br />
<br />
===Chenxi Wu===<br />
<br />
"Asymptotic translation lengths on curve complexes and free factor complexes"<br />
<br />
The curve complex of a closed surface is a simplicial complex where the vertices are simple closed curves up to isotopy and faces are curves that are disjoint, and an analogy for the curve complex in the setting of Out(F_n) is the free factor complex. A pseudo-Anosov map induces a map from the curve graph to itself, and a basic question is to study the asymptotic translation length which is known to be a non-zero rational number. I will review some prior results on the study of this asymptotic translation length, as well as some of their analogies in the setting of free factor complexes. The latter part is an ongoing project with Hyrungryul Baik and Dongryul Kim. [https://wuchenxi.github.io/graph.pdf Slides]<br />
<br />
<br />
===Kathryn Lindsey===<br />
<br />
"Slices of Thurston's Master Teapot"<br />
<br />
Thurston's Master Teapot is the closure of the set of all points $(z,\lambda) \in \mathbb{C} \times \mathbb{R}$ such that $\lambda$ is the growth rate of a critically periodic unimodal self-map of an interval and $z$ is a Galois conjugate of $\lambda$. I will present a new characterization of which points are in this set. This characterization gives a way to think of each horizontal slice of the Master Teapot as an analogy of the Mandelbrot set for a "restricted iterated function system." An application of this characterization is that the Master Teapot is not invariant under the map $(z,\lambda) \mapsto (-z,\lambda)$. This presentation is based on joint work with Chenxi Wu.</div>Cwu367https://wiki.math.wisc.edu/index.php?title=Dynamics_Seminar_2020-2021&diff=20056Dynamics Seminar 2020-20212020-10-01T21:36:35Z<p>Cwu367: /* Fall Abstracts */</p>
<hr />
<div>The [[Dynamics Seminar]] meets virtually on '''Wednesdays''' from '''2:30pm - 3:20pm'''.<br />
<br> <br />
For more information, contact Chenxi Wu.<br />
To sign up for the mailing list send an email from your wisc.edu address to dynamics+join@g-groups.wisc.edu<br />
[[Image:Hawk.jpg|thumb|300px]]<br />
<br />
<br />
== Fall 2020 ==<br />
<br />
{| cellpadding="8"<br />
!align="left" | date<br />
!align="left" | speaker<br />
!align="left" | title<br />
!align="left" | host(s)<br />
|-<br />
|September 16<br />
|Andrew Zimmer (Wisconsin)<br />
|An introduction to Anosov representations I<br />
| (local)<br />
|-<br />
|September 23<br />
|Andrew Zimmer (Wisconsin)<br />
|An introduction to Anosov representations II<br />
| (local)<br />
|-<br />
|September 30<br />
|Chenxi Wu (Wisconsin)<br />
|Asymptoic translation lengths on curve complexes and free factor complexes<br />
| (local)<br />
|-<br />
|October 7<br />
|Kathryn Lindsey<br />
|Slices of Thurston's Master Teapot<br />
| (Boston College)<br />
|-<br />
|October 14<br />
|Daniel Thompson<br />
|TBA<br />
| (Ohio State)<br />
|}<br />
<br />
== Fall Abstracts ==<br />
<br />
===Andrew Zimmer===<br />
<br />
"An introduction to Anosov representations"<br />
<br />
Anosov representations are a special class of representations of finitely generated groups into Lie groups, which are defined using ideas from dynamics (namely, the theory of Anosov flows). In this talk, I will explain the definition (in a special case), give some examples, and describe some properties. I will focus on the case of representations into the general linear group where no background knowledge about Lie groups is required.<br />
<br />
<br />
===Chenxi Wu===<br />
<br />
"Asymptotic translation lengths on curve complexes and free factor complexes"<br />
<br />
The curve complex of a closed surface is a simplicial complex where the vertices are simple closed curves up to isotopy and faces are curves that are disjoint, and an analogy for the curve complex in the setting of Out(F_n) is the free factor complex. A pseudo-Anosov map induces a map from the curve graph to itself, and a basic question is to study the asymptotic translation length which is known to be a non-zero rational number. I will review some prior results on the study of this asymptotic translation length, as well as some of their analogies in the setting of free factor complexes. The latter part is an ongoing project with Hyrungryul Baik and Dongryul Kim. [https://wuchenxi.github.io/graph.pdf Slides]<br />
<br />
<br />
===Kathryn Lindsey===<br />
<br />
"Slices of Thurston's Master Teapot"<br />
<br />
Thurston's Master Teapot is the closure of the set of all points $(z,\lambda) \in \mathbb{C} \times \mathbb{R}$ such that $\lambda$ is the growth rate of a critically periodic unimodal self-map of an interval and $z$ is a Galois conjugate of $\lambda$. I will present a new characterization of which points are in this set. This characterization gives a way to think of each horizontal slice of the Master Teapot as an analogy of the Mandelbrot set for a ``restricted iterated function system.'' An application of this characterization is that the Master Teapot is not invariant under the map $(z,\lambda) \mapsto (-z,\lambda)$. This presentation is based on joint work with Chenxi Wu.</div>Cwu367https://wiki.math.wisc.edu/index.php?title=Dynamics_Seminar_2020-2021&diff=20055Dynamics Seminar 2020-20212020-10-01T21:34:56Z<p>Cwu367: /* Fall 2020 */</p>
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== Fall 2020 ==<br />
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|September 16<br />
|Andrew Zimmer (Wisconsin)<br />
|An introduction to Anosov representations I<br />
| (local)<br />
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|September 23<br />
|Andrew Zimmer (Wisconsin)<br />
|An introduction to Anosov representations II<br />
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|September 30<br />
|Chenxi Wu (Wisconsin)<br />
|Asymptoic translation lengths on curve complexes and free factor complexes<br />
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|October 7<br />
|Kathryn Lindsey<br />
|Slices of Thurston's Master Teapot<br />
| (Boston College)<br />
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|October 14<br />
|Daniel Thompson<br />
|TBA<br />
| (Ohio State)<br />
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== Fall Abstracts ==<br />
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===Andrew Zimmer===<br />
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"An introduction to Anosov representations"<br />
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Anosov representations are a special class of representations of finitely generated groups into Lie groups, which are defined using ideas from dynamics (namely, the theory of Anosov flows). In this talk, I will explain the definition (in a special case), give some examples, and describe some properties. I will focus on the case of representations into the general linear group where no background knowledge about Lie groups is required.<br />
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===Chenxi Wu===<br />
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"Asymptotic translation lengths on curve complexes and free factor complexes"<br />
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The curve complex of a closed surface is a simplicial complex where the vertices are simple closed curves up to isotopy and faces are curves that are disjoint, and an analogy for the curve complex in the setting of Out(F_n) is the free factor complex. A pseudo-Anosov map induces a map from the curve graph to itself, and a basic question is to study the asymptotic translation length which is known to be a non-zero rational number. I will review some prior results on the study of this asymptotic translation length, as well as some of their analogies in the setting of free factor complexes. The latter part is an ongoing project with Hyrungryul Baik and Dongryul Kim. [https://wuchenxi.github.io/graph.pdf Slides]</div>Cwu367