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SUMMARY:Detecting splittings of hyperbolic groups - Benjamin Barrett (Camb
 ridge)
DTSTART:20180509T150000Z
DTEND:20180509T160000Z
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CONTACT:Oscar Randal-Williams
DESCRIPTION:When studying a group\, it is often useful to try to cut it up
  into simpler pieces. Sometimes this can be done in an canonical way analo
 gous to the JSJ decomposition of a 3-manifold\, in which the collection of
  tori along which the manifold is cut is unique up to isotopy. It is a the
 orem of Brian Bowditch that if the group acts nicely on a metric space wit
 h a negative curvature property then a canonical decomposition can be read
  directly from the large-scale geometry of that space. In this talk I shal
 l describe an algorithmic consequence of this relationship between the lar
 ge-scale geometry of the group and is algebraic decomposition.
LOCATION:MR13
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