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Lafont, Jean

Assistant Professor

Office:MW 636 (Columbus)
Phone:614-292-5814 (Columbus)
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Website:http://www.math.ohio-state.edu/~jlafont
OSU ID:lafont.1
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Research Areas:Differential Geometry
Geometric Group Theory
K-Theory
Topology

Selected Publications

  1. "Finite automorphisms of negatively curved Poincare Duality groups," (joint with F.T. Farrell), GAFA 14 (2004), pgs. 283-294.
  2. "EZ-structures and topological applications," (joint with F.T. Farrell), Comment. Math. Helv. 80 (2005), pgs. 103-121.
  3. "Simplicial volume of closed locally symmetric spaces of non-compact type," (joint with B.I. Schmidt), Acta Math. 197 (2006), pgs. 129-143.
  4. "Blocking light in compact Riemannian manifolds," (joint with B.I. Schmidt), Geom. Topol. 11 (2007), pgs. 867-887.
  5. "A boundary version of Cartan-Hadamard and applications to rigidity," J. Topol. Anal. 1 (2009), pgs. 431-459.
  6. "Lower algebraic K-theory of certain reflection groups," (joint with B. Magurn and I. Ortiz), Math. Proc. Cambridge Philos. Soc. 148 (2010), pgs. 193-226.
  7. "Large scale detection of half-flats in CAT(0)-spaces," (joint with S. Francaviglia), Indiana Univ. Math. J. 59 (2010), pgs. 395-415.