On tilings, amenable equivalence relations and foliated spaces

Abstract: I will describe a family of foliated spaces constructed from tylings on Lie groups. They provide a negative answer to the following question by G.Hector: are leaves of a compact foliated space always quasi-isometric to Cayley graphs? Their construction was motivated by a profound conjecture of Giordano, Putnam and Skau on the classification, up to orbit equivalence, of actions of countable amenable groups on the Cantor set. I will briefly explain how these examples relate to the GPS conjecture. This is joint work with Fernando Alcalde Cuesta and Álvaro Lozano Rojo.

differential geometry

Audience: researchers in the topic

Pangolin seminar

Series comments: TIME HAS CHANGED: 15:30 Paris 10:30AM Rio de Janeiro

Description: Differential geometry seminar

Zoom link posted on the webpage 15 minutes before each lecture: https://sites.google.com/view/pangolin-seminar/home