The horofunction boundary of Teichmüller space

Nom de l'orateur
Cormac Walsh
Etablissement de l'orateur
CMAP, Ecole Polytechnique ; Inria
Date et heure de l'exposé
Lieu de l'exposé
salle Éole

The horofunction boundary was introduced by Gromov in the late 1970s as a general way of compactifying metric spaces. I will describe this boundary in the case of Teichmüller space, and discuss what it tells us about the geometry of this space.