Second Bounded Cohomology

Speaker: Mladen Bestvina

Date: Mon, May 28, 2012

Location: PIMS, University of British Columbia

Conference: PIMS Distinguished Lecturer

Subject: Mathematics, Group Theory, Topology

Class: Scientific

Abstract:

Most of the talk will be an introduction to (second) bounded cohomology of a discrete group. I will explain classical constructions of bounded cocycles and recent results (joint with Bromberg and Fujiwara) regarding mapping class groups and a construction of bounded cocycles with coefficients in an arbitrary unitary representation.