17/06/2005, 12:00 — 13:00 — Room P12, Mathematics Building
William Goldman, University of Maryland
Projective geometry on manifolds (V)
\(RP2\)-structures on surfaces
- Coxeter groups.
- Convex projective structures; Hitchin's conjecture.
- Choi's convex decomposition theorem.
- Regularity of the boundary, bulging deformations.
- Survey of recent progress: higher dimensions and other geometries.