# '22

36th Summer Topology Conference

July 18-22, 2022

University of Vienna, Department of Mathematics
Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1, 1090 Vienna, AUSTRIA

### "$L^p$-geometry of diffeomorphism groups: old and new results"

#### Brandenbursky, Michael

In this talk I will discuss a number of old and new results on the large-scale geometry of the $L^p$-metrics on the group of area-preserving diffeomorphisms of each orientable surface. In particular, I will show how to use in a key way the Fulton-MacPherson type compactification of the configuration space of n points on the surface, due to Axelrod-Singer and Kontsevich, in order to apply the Schwarz-Milnor lemma to configuration spaces, a natural approach which is carried out successfully for the first time. As sample results, I will show that all right-angled Artin groups admit quasi-isometric embeddings into the group of area-preserving diffeomorphisms endowed with the $L^p$-metric, and that all Gambaudo-Ghys quasi-morphisms on this metric group coming from the braid group on n strands are Lipschitz. This was conjectured to hold, yet proven only for low values of n and the genus g of the surface. (joint work with M. Marcinkowski and E. Shelukhin)

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