Some metric properties of Houghton's groups

Series
Geometry Topology Seminar
Time
Monday, January 6, 2014 - 2:05pm for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
Location
Skiles 006
Speaker
Sean Cleary – CUNY
Organizer
Dan Margalit
Houghton's groups are a family of subgroups of infinite permutation groups known for their cohomological properties. Here, I describe some aspects of their geometry and metric properties including families of self-quasi-isomtries. This is joint work with Jose Burillo, Armando Martino and Claas Roever.