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Departmental Colloquium


Date: Tuesday, Feb 13, 2001

Time: 4:15PM

Location: JWB 335


Ken Bromberg

University of Michigan

Title

Self-bumping of deformation spaces of hyperbolic 3-manifolds

Abstract

In the Sullivan dictionary between Kleinian groups and rational maps, the space of complete hyperbolic structures on a 3-manifold is the analogue of the Mandelbrot set. We will describe some similarities between the two spaces, but will also see that the space of hyperbolic structures exhibits behavior not found in the Mandelbrot set. In particular, a component of the interior of the space of hyperbolic structures can ``self-bump’’. This is joint work with John Holt.

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