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Departmental Colloquium


Date: Thursday, Jan 13, 2022

Time: 4:00PM

Location: JWB 335


Wenyu Pan

University of Chicago

Title

Exponential mixing of flows for geometrically finite hyperbolic manifolds with cusps

Abstract

Let \mathbb{H}^n be the hyperbolic n-space and \Gamma be a geometrically finite discrete subgroup in Isom_{+}(\mathbb{H}^n) with parabolic elements. We investigate whether the geodesic flow (resp. the frame flow) over the unit tangent bundle T^1(\Gamma\backslash \mathbb{H}^n) (resp. the frame bundle F(\Gamma\backslash \mathbb{H}^n)) mixes exponentially. This result has many applications, including spectral theory, prime geodesic theorems, orbit counting, equidistribution, etc. I will start with a survey of the past results, methods, and related problems on this topic. Along the way, I will present the joint work with Jialun Li, Pratyush Sarkar.

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