Séminaire de Géométrie et Topologie

A group from a map and orbit equivalence

by Natalia A. Viana Bedoya

Europe/Paris
1R2-207

1R2-207

Description
In two papers published in 1979, R. Bowen and C. Series defined a dynamical system from a Fuchsian group, acting on the hyperbolic plane \mathbb{H}^2. The dynamic is given by a map on S^1=\partial(\mathbb{H}^2)  which is, in particular, a discontinuous expanding piecewise homeomorphism of the circle. Moreover, the map and the group action are orbit equivalent.
 In this talk, we consider a reverse question: which dynamical conditions, for a discontinuous expanding piecewise homeomorphism of S^1, are sufficient  to construct a hyperbolic surface group that acts on S^1, with orbits equivalent to that of dynamics?