Texas A&M University, Department of Mathematics, 216 Milner Hall, 6th of September 2005, 3:00-3:50

Groups and Dynamics Seminar


Plane-filling curves and self-similar groups

Volodymyr Nekrashevych of Texas A&M University

A self-similar embedding of a contracting group into another contracting group induces a continuous surjection of their limit spaces. This can be used to define and to study different plane-filling curves. We will interpret the original Peano curve and show how a branch group can be constructed from the paper-folding procedure.