Schedule

This is a temporary schedule of our course.

Week 1: Covering Theorems, Minkowski dimension, Hausdorff dimension.

Reference: [Hei01] Chapter 1. [BP17] Chapter 1.

Week 2: Self similarlity, Frostman's theory

Reference: [BP17] Chapter 2,3.

Week 3: Capacity, graph of contionus function

Reference: [BP17] Chapter 3, 5.

Week 4: Break.

Week 5: Lipshitz functions, Modulus

Reference: [Hei01] Chapter 6, 7.

Week 6: Loewner spaces, Poincare Inequality

Reference: [Hei01] Chapter 8, 9.

Week 7: Quasisymmetry and related fucntions

Reference: [Hei01] Chapter 10,11,12. Papers.

Week 8: Quasisymmetry and Conformal dimension

Reference: [Hei01] Chapter 14, 15.

Week 9: Gromov-Hausdorff convergence, Weak tangents.

Reference: [BBI01] Chapter 7,8. [DS97] Chapter 8,9.

Week 10: Hyperbolic spaces, Hyperbolic groups, the boundary of hyperbolic groups.

Reference: [KB02] Section 1, 2, 3.

Week 11: Properties of hyperbolic groups.

Reference: [KB02] Section 3, 4, 8.

Week 12: Cannon conjecture, Kapovich-Kleiner conjecture.

Reference: [KB02] Section 9, 12. Papers.

We will spend the rest of the semester on related interesting topics and the student's presentation.

课程: 

Topics in Geometric Topology