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SUMMARY:Ben Lowe (Princeton University)
DTSTART:20201215T140000Z
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UID:Geometry/17
DESCRIPTION:Title: <a href="https://researchseminars.org/talk/Geometry/17/
 ">Minimal Surfaces in Negatively Curved 3-Manifolds and Dynamics</a>\nby B
 en Lowe (Princeton University) as part of Pangolin seminar\n\n\nAbstract\n
 The Grassmann bundle of tangent 2-planes over a closed hyperbolic 3-manifo
 ld M has a natural foliation by (lifts by their tangent planes of) immerse
 d totally geodesic planes in M. I am going to talk about work I’ve done 
 on constructing foliations whose leaves are (lifts of) minimal surfaces in
  a metric on M of negative sectional curvature\, which are deformations of
  the totally geodesic foliation described above. These foliations make it 
 possible to use homogeneous dynamics to study how closed minimal surfaces 
 in variable negative curvature are distributed in the ambient 3-manifold. 
 Many of the ideas here come from recent work of Calegari-Marques-Neves\, w
 hich I will also talk about. I was able to establish some preliminary fact
 s about the dynamics of these foliations\, but much remains to be understo
 od.\n
LOCATION:https://researchseminars.org/talk/Geometry/17/
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