Dirichlet Fundamental Domains | Department of Mathematics

Dirichlet Fundamental Domains

Event Information
Event Location: 
GAB 461
Event Date: 
Friday, October 17, 2014 - 1:00pm

Abstract: Fundamental domains arise naturally in the study of group
actions on topological spaces. The most basic fundamental domains can
be thought of as a polygonal region that tessellates the plane under the
action of the associated group. In this learning seminar, we discuss
fundamental domains for discrete groups of isometeries, and we prove that the
so called Dirichelt domain is a locally finite fundamental domain for such
groups.