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Lafont, Jean-Francois

Assistant Professor

Office:MW 510 (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
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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. "Strong Jordan separation and applications to rigidity," J. London Math. Soc. 73 (2006), pgs. 681-700.
  4. "Simplicial volume of closed locally symmetric spaces of non-compact type," (joint with B.I. Schmidt), Acta Mathematica 197 (2006), pgs. 129-143.
  5. "Algebraic K-theory of hyperbolic 3-simplex reflection groups," (joint with I. Ortiz), to appear in Comment. Math. Helv.