Untouchable points in boundaries of deformation spaces of Kleinian groups
Speaker:
Richard Canary, University of Michigan
Date and Time:
Friday, May 26, 2006 - 11:00am to 12:00pm
Location:
Fields Institute, Room 230
Abstract:
In the last decade it has been discovered that deformation spaces of Kleinian groups can have quite complicated topology. Most dramatically, Ken Bromberg recently showed that the space of punctured torus groups is not even locally connected. On the other hand, it is expected that the topology behaves well at quasiconformally rigid points in boundaries of deformation spaces of Kleinian groups. In various situations, we will show that there is no bumping or self- bumping at such points. This is joint work with Jeff Brock, Ken Bromberg and Yair Minsky.