Event
Valentina Disarlo, Heidelberg University
Wednesday, November 14, 2018 15:00to16:00
Burnside Hall
room 1104, 805 rue Sherbrooke Ouest, Montreal, QC, H3A 0B9, CA
Cubical geometry in the polygonalization complex
The polygonalization complex of a punctured surface is a cube complex whose vertices correspond to polygonal decompositions of the surface. Although the complex is not CAT(0), it is contractible and shares many features of a CAT(0) cube complex. In particular, it has a very rich family of separating and embedded hyperplanes. We will parametrize it and characterize its crossing graph via the arc complex. This is a joint work with M. Bell and R. Tang.