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G^3 = Geometric Group Theory on the Gulf Coast Conference
March 20-23, 2008

Pensacola Beach, Florida, USA

Organizers
Josh Barnard, Igor Belegradek, Igor Mineyev.

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Deformation a hyperbolic 4-orbifold
by
Peter Storm
University of Pennsylvania
Coauthors: Steven Kerckhoff

It is well known that Thurston's beautiful deformation theory of hyperbolic structures is 99 percent useless in dimensions greater than 3. Steve Kerckhoff and I have been studying a new example of a hyperbolic deformation in 4 dimensions which produces an infinite number of new hyperbolic 4-orbifolds with interesting properties. The talk will attempt to motivate this work.

Date received: November 30, 2007

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