Math 851 – Fall 2014

• SYLLABUS
  • Syllabus

• LECTURE NOTES
  • Lecture 0: Background
  • Lecture 1: Minkowski Spaces
  • Lecture 2: Hyperbolic Spaces
  • Lecture 3: Arc Length and Volume
  • Lecture 4: Mobius Transformations and Conformal Models of H^n

• SOURCES
  • U. Haagerup and H. Munkholm, Simplices of maximal volume in hyperbolic n-space
  • H. Munkholm, Simplices of maximal volume in hyperbolic space, Gromov’s norm and Gromov’s proof of Mostow’s rigidity theorem (following Thurston)
  • W. Thurston, The geometry and topology of three-manifolds