The geometry of right-angled Artin subgroups of mapping class groups

Series
Geometry Topology Seminar
Time
Monday, January 10, 2011 - 2:05pm for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
Location
Skiles 006
Speaker
Matt Clay – Allegheny College – http://webpub.allegheny.edu/employee/m/mclay/
Organizer
Dan Margalit
We describe sufficient conditions which guarantee that a finite set of mapping classes generate a right-angled Artin subgroup quasi-isometrically embedded in the mapping class group. Moreover, under these conditions, the orbit map to Teichmuller space is a quasi-isometric embedding for both of the standard metrics. This is joint work with Chris Leininger and Johanna Mangahas.