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Taut surgeries on curves and shortest geodesics

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  • UserMacarena Arenas (Cambridge)
  • ClockWednesday 24 January 2024, 16:00-17:00
  • HouseMR13.

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In this talk we will discuss the connection between combinatorial properties of minimally self-intersecting curves on a surface S and the geometric behaviour of geodesics on S when S is endowed with a Riemannian metric. In particular, we will explain the interplay between a smoothing, which is a type of surgery on a curve that resolves a self-intersection, and k-systoles, which are shortest geodesics having at least k self-intersections, and we will present some results that partially elucidate this interplay.

This talk is part of the Differential Geometry and Topology Seminar series.

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