Michael Kapovich

Misha Kapovich, Oberwolfach 2015

Michael Kapovich (also Misha Kapovich, Михаил Эрикович Капович, transcription Mikhail Erikovich Kapovich, born 1963) is a Russian-American mathematician.

Kapovich was awarded a doctorate in 1988 at the Sobolev Institute of Mathematics in Novosibirsk with thesis advisor Samuel Leibovich Krushkal and thesis "Плоские конформные структуры на 3-многообразиях" (Flat conformal structures on 3-manifolds, Russian lang. thesis). Kapovich is now a professor at University of California, Davis, where he has been since 2003.

His research deals with low-dimensional geometry and topology, Kleinian groups, hyperbolic geometry, geometric group theory, geometric representation theory in Lie groups, spaces of nonpositive curvature, and configuration spaces of arrangements and mechanical linkages.

in 2006 in Madrid he was an Invited Speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians with talk Generalized triangle inequalities and their applications.

He is married to mathematician Jennifer Schultens.

Selected publications

Articles

• On monodromy of complex projective structures. Invent. Math. 119 (1995), no. 1, 243–265. doi:10.1007/BF01245182
• with B. Leeb: On asymptotic cones and quasi-isometric classes of fundamental groups of 3-manifolds. Geom. Funct. Anal. 5 (1995), no. 3, 582–603. doi:10.1007/BF01895833
• with J. J. Millson: On the moduli space of polygons in the Euclidean plane. J. Differential Geom. 42 (1995), no. 1, 133–164.
• with J. J. Millson: The symplectic geometry of polygons in Euclidean space. J. Differential Geom. 44 (1996), no. 3, 479–513. doi:10.4310/jdg/1214459218
• with B. Leeb: Quasi-isometries preserve the geometric decomposition of Haken manifolds. Invent. Math. 128 (1997), no. 2, 393–416. doi:10.1007/s002220050145
• with J. J. Millson: On representation varieties of Artin groups, projective arrangements and the fundamental groups of smooth complex algebraic varieties. Inst. Hautes Études Sci. Publ. Math. 88 (1998), 5–95 (1999). doi:10.1007/BF02701766
• with D. Gallo, A. Marden: The monodromy groups of Schwarzian equations on closed Riemann surfaces. Ann. of Math. (2) 151 (2000), no. 2, 625–704.
• with B. Kleiner: Hyperbolic groups with low-dimensional boundary. Ann. Sci. Ecole Norm. Sup. (4) 33 (2000), no. 5, 647–669.
• with M. Bestvina, B. Kleiner: Van Kampen's embedding obstruction for discrete groups. Invent. Math. 150 (2002), no. 2, 219–235. doi:10.1007/s00222-002-0246-7
• Homological dimension and critical exponent of Kleinian groups. Geom. Funct. Anal. 18 (2009), no. 6, 2017–2054. doi:10.1007/s00039-009-0705-z
• Dirichlet fundamental domains and topology of projective varieties. Invent. Math. 194 (2013), no. 3, 631–672 doi:10.1007/s00222-013-0453-4
• with J. Kollár: Fundamental groups of links of isolated singularities. J. Amer. Math. Soc. 27 (2014), no. 4, 929–952. doi:10.1090/S0894-0347-2014-00807-9
• with B. Leeb, J. Porti: Anosov subgroups: Dynamical and geometric characterizations. Eur. J. Math. 3 (2017), 808–898. doi:10.1007/s40879-017-0192-y

Books

• Hyperbolic manifolds and discrete groups. 2001. Reprint of the 2001 edition. Modern Birkhäuser Classics. Birkhäuser Boston, Inc., Boston, MA, 2009. ISBN 978-0-8176-4912-8
• with B. Leeb, J. J. Millson: The generalized triangle inequalities in symmetric spaces and buildings with applications to algebra. Memoirs of the AMS, Volume 192, Number 896. American Mathematical Society. 2008. ISBN 978-0-8218-4054-2.
• with Cornelia Druţu: Geometric group theory. AMS Colloquium Publications, vol. 63. American Mathematical Society. 2018.

External links

• online preprints by Kapovich. {{cite book}}: |website= ignored (help)
• "M. Kapovich: Introduction to geometric universality". YouTube. 15 November 2013.
• "M. Kapovich: Universality for character schemes for 3 manifold groups". YouTube. 12 November 2013.
• "Topology of complex projective varieties and 3-dimensional hyperbolic geometry (Misha Kapovich)". YouTube. 10 January 2017.
• lectures at Geometry, Groups and Dynamics (GGD) - 2017, International Centre for Theoretical Sciences, Tata Institute
  • "Discrete Isometry Group of Higher Rank Symmetric Spaces (Lecture - 01) by Misha Kapovich". YouTube. 16 November 2017.
  • "Discrete Isometry Group of Higher Rank Symmetric Spaces (Lecture - 02) by Misha Kapovich". YouTube. 16 November 2017.
  • "Discrete Isometry Group of Higher Rank Symmetric Spaces (Lecture - 03) by Misha Kapovich". YouTube. 21 November 2017.
  • "Discrete Isometry Group of Higher Rank Symmetric Spaces (Lecture - 04) by Misha Kapovich". YouTube. 21 November 2017.