Department of Mathematics

Speaker: Johanna Mangahas
Title: The Geometry of Right-Angled Artin Subgroups of Mapping Class Groups
Affiliation: Brown University
Date: Thursday, November 3, 2011
Place and Time: Room 106, Love Building, 3:35-4:30 pm

Abstract. I will describe joint work with Matt Clay and Chris Leininger. We give sufficient conditions for a finite set of mapping classes to generate a right-angled Artin group quasi-isometrically embedded in the mapping class group. Moreover, under these conditions, the orbit map to Teichmueller space is a quasi-isometric embedding for both of the standard metrics.