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BINGHAMTON GEOMETRY/TOPOLOGY SEMINAR<br><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="gmail_quote">
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<br><i>Date:</i> Thursday, Nov 17, 2011<div><br>
<i>Time:</i> 2:50-3:50pm<br><i>Place:</i> Library North 2205 followed by coffee/tea in the Anderson Reading Room.<br>
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</div><i>Speaker:</i> Robert Bieri (Binghamton University and Goethe University Frankfurt)<br><i>Title: </i>Isolated and Condensation points in the space of marked groups<em></em><i><br><br>Abstract:</i> The set G(m) of all isomorphism classes of m-generator groups can be identified with the set of all
normal subgroups S of the free group F of rank m. G(m) is endowed with the CHABAUTY-topology, which
is based on the sets of all S containing one and avoiding a second given finite subset of F. It is a
remarkable fact that whether a group G in G(m) is isolated, or is a condensation point - or, for that
matter, any other local property of the point G in G(m) - is independent of the generating set of G
and of m; hence those are group theoretic properties.<br>
I will present examples and condensation criteria, one of which is best understood in terms of the
Geometric Invariant Ó(G) from joint work with Walter Neumann and Ralph Strebel. The presented
work is a joint work with Luc Guyot, Yves de Cornulier and Ralph Strebel.
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