Event time:
Tuesday, April 21, 2009 - 12:30pm to Monday, April 20, 2009 - 8:00pm
Location:
431 DL
Speaker:
Cameron Gordon
Speaker affiliation:
UT Austin
Event description:
A well-known question of Gromov asks whether every one-ended word hyperbolic group G contains a surface subgroup. We consider the special case where G is the double of a free group F along the cyclic subgroup generated by an element w in F, and give various conditions on w under which Gromov’s question has an affirmative answer. This is joint work with Henry Wilton.