Correspondences On Riemann Surfaces: (Non-Uniform) Hyperbolicity and Graph Attractors
Time: 2026-02-12
Published By: Xiaoni Tan
Speaker(s): Kevin Pilgrim (Indiana University, US)
Time: 09:00-10:00 February 20, 2026
Venue: Online
(Joint with L. Bartholdi and D. Dudko)
Abstract:
We consider certain correspondences on a Riemann surface, and show that they admit a weak form of hyperbolicity: sufficiently long loops get shorter under lifting at a fixed point and closing. In terms of their algebraic encoding by bisets, this translates to contraction of fundamental group elements along sequences arising from iterated lifting.
As an application, we show that apart from the usual Latt\`es counterexamples, for any rational map on $P^1$ with $4$ post-critical points, there is a finite invariant collection of isotopy classes of curves into which every curve is attracted under iterated lifting.
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