Laurent Bartholdi

$LB in Santiago de Chile, September 2009$ I'm a Professor at the Mathematical Institute of the Georg-August University of Göttingen.

Address:: Laurent Bartholdi; Office 202, Mathematical Institute; Bunsenstraße 3-5; D-37073 Göttingen; Germany; Telephone: +49 551 39 7826; Secretary: +49 551 39 7752; Facsimile: +49 551 39 22674; E-Mail: laurent.bartholdi@gmail.com

Publications (HTML) and arXiv

Curriculum vitae:: In HTML, TeX or PDF format .

I am currently interested in understanding fractal behaviour in group theory and algebra, and its use for holomorphic dynamical systems.

Self-similar, or fractal, objects abound in mathematics; depending on context, they mean a space containing several almost disjoint copies of itself as subspaces; a group containing the direct product of copies of itself as a subgroup; or an algebra containing a matrix algebra over itself as a subalgebra. The fractalness is algebraically encoded via the collection of inclusion maps of these subobjects in their common parent.

A self-similar group may be associated with any complex dynamical system, and yields an extremely potent algebraic invariant of that dynamical system up to isotopy and conjugation. I currently explore more deeply the connection between complex dynamics and fractal groups, and use it to extend the classification of degree-two polynomials (described by points in the Mandelbrot set) to arbitrary-degree rational functions.

Seminars:: Mathematical events; Department colloquium; GK colloquium

Courses:: Group Theory (in German; requires stud-ip access), TuFr 14:15-15:55 in HS2.

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Conferences:: Symposium in Honour of Vadim Kaimanovich
November 28th, 2009 from 9:00 to 17:00 in "Haus der Wissenschaft", Sandstrasse 4-5, Bremen:
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Links:

The FR GAP-package, for manipulation of groups and semigroups generated by automata.
Göttingen collection of mathematical models
Slides I received from speakers in the conference "Trends and Directions in Conformal Dynamics" in Oberwolfach, October 17-21, 2008
Windows crashes in everyday life -- a commented photo gallery
Movies Movies illustrating the "twisted rabbit" paper in progress with V. Nekrashevych.
How I Rank in Hell
My Images
A movie I made (hi-rez) of the Schreier graph of the Gupta-Sidki group, in avi and MPEG-1 format.
Bibliography (BibTeX) of papers I'm interested in, in zip and tar.gz format.
LaTeX2e style file for sending notes in LaTeX to the CRAS (Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences de Paris), in zip and tar.gz format (contains G. Perec's article "Experimental... Cantatrix sopranica L." as a sample).