Seminar series
          
      Date
              Wed, 06 Jun 2018
      
      
          Time
        16:00 - 
        17:00
          Location
              C5
          Speaker
              Alex Margolis
          Organisation
              University of Oxford
          One of the main themes in geometric group theory is Gromov's program to classify finitely generated groups up to quasi-isometry. We show that under certain situations, a quasi-isometry preserves commensurator subgroups. We will focus on the case where a finitely generated group G contains a coarse PD_n subgroup H such that G=Comm(H). Such groups can be thought of as coarse fibrations whose fibres are cosets of H; quasi-isometries of G coarsely preserve these fibres. This generalises work of Whyte and Mosher--Sageev--Whyte.
 
    