The spheres of Sol

Abstract: We give a complete characterization of the cut locus of the identity in Sol, one of the strangest of the eight Thurston geometries. As a corollary we prove that the metric spheres in Sol are in fact topological spheres.

This is joint work with Matei Coiculescu

algebraic topologydifferential geometrydynamical systemsgroup theorygeometric topologysymplectic geometry

Audience: researchers in the topic

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