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Life and career
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Mladen Bestvina is a three-time medalist at the International Mathematical Olympiad (two silver medals in 1976 and 1978 and a bronze medal in 1977).[2] He received a B. Sc. in 1982 from the University of Zagreb .[3] He obtained a PhD in Mathematics in 1984 at the University of Tennessee under the direction of John Walsh.[4] He was a visiting scholar at the Institute for Advanced Study in 1987-88 and again in 1990–91.[5] Bestvina had been a faculty member at UCLA , and joined the faculty in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Utah in 1993.[6] He was appointed a Distinguished Professor at the University of Utah in 2008.[6]
Bestvina received the Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship in 1988–89[7] [8] and a Presidential Young Investigator Award in 1988–91.[9]
Bestvina gave an invited address at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Beijing in 2002,[10] and gave a plenary lecture at virtual ICM 2022.[11]
He also gave a Unni Namboodiri Lecture in Geometry and Topology at the University of Chicago .[12]
Bestvina served as an Editorial Board member for the Transactions of the American Mathematical Society [13] and as an associate editor of the Annals of Mathematics .[14] Currently he is an editorial board member for Duke Mathematical Journal ,[15] Geometric and Functional Analysis ,[16] Geometry and Topology ,[17] the Journal of Topology and Analysis ,[18] Groups, Geometry and Dynamics ,[19] Michigan Mathematical Journal ,[20] Rocky Mountain Journal of Mathematics ,[21] and Glasnik Matematicki .[22]
In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society .[23] Since 2012, he has been a correspondent member of the HAZU (Croatian Academy of Science and Art).[1]
Mathematical contributions
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A 1988 monograph of Bestvina[24] gave an abstract topological characterization of universal Menger compacta in all dimensions; previously only the cases of dimension 0 and 1 were well understood. John Walsh wrote in a review of Bestvina's monograph: 'This work, which formed the author's Ph.D. thesis at the University of Tennessee , represents a monumental step forward, having moved the status of the topological structure of higher-dimensional Menger compacta from one of "close to total ignorance" to one of "complete understanding".'[25]
In a 1992 paper Bestvina and Feighn obtained a Combination Theorem for word-hyperbolic groups .[26] The theorem provides a set of sufficient conditions for amalgamated free products and HNN extensions of word-hyperbolic groups to again be word-hyperbolic. The Bestvina–Feighn Combination Theorem became a standard tool in geometric group theory and has had many applications and generalizations (e.g.[27] [28] [29] [30] ).
Bestvina and Feighn also gave the first published treatment of Rips' theory of stable group actions on R -trees (the Rips machine )[31] In particular their paper gives a proof of the Morgan–Shalen conjecture [32] that a finitely generated group G admits a free isometric action on an R -tree if and only if G is a free product of surface groups, free groups and free abelian groups .
A 1992 paper of Bestvina and Handel introduced the notion of a train track map for representing elements of Out(F n ) .[33] In the same paper they introduced the notion of a relative train track and applied train track methods to solve[33] the Scott conjecture , which says that for every automorphism α of a finitely generated free group F n the fixed subgroup of α is free of rank at most n . Since then train tracks became a standard tool in the study of algebraic, geometric and dynamical properties of automorphisms of free groups and of subgroups of Out(F n ). Examples of applications of train tracks include: a theorem of Brinkmann[34] proving that for an automorphism α of F n the mapping torus group of α is word-hyperbolic if and only if α has no periodic conjugacy classes; a theorem of Bridson and Groves[35] that for every automorphism α of F n the mapping torus group of α satisfies a quadratic isoperimetric inequality ; a proof of algorithmic solvability of the conjugacy problem for free-by-cyclic groups;[36] and others.
Bestvina, Feighn and Handel later proved that the group Out(F n ) satisfies the Tits alternative ,[37] [38] settling a long-standing open problem.
In a 1997 paper[39] Bestvina and Brady developed a version of discrete Morse theory for cubical complexes and applied it to study homological finiteness properties of subgroups of right-angled Artin groups . In particular, they constructed an example of a group which provides a counter-example to either the Whitehead asphericity conjecture or to the Eilenberg−Ganea conjecture , thus showing that at least one of these conjectures must be false. Brady subsequently used their Morse theory technique to construct the first example of a finitely presented subgroup of a word-hyperbolic group that is not itself word-hyperbolic.[40]
Selected publications
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Bestvina, Mladen, Characterizing k -dimensional universal Menger compacta . Memoirs of the American Mathematical Society , vol. 71 (1988), no. 380
Bestvina, Mladen; Feighn, Mark, Bounding the complexity of simplicial group actions on trees . Inventiones Mathematicae , vol. 103 (1991), no. 3, pp. 449–469
Bestvina, Mladen; Mess, Geoffrey, The boundary of negatively curved groups . Journal of the American Mathematical Society , vol. 4 (1991), no. 3, pp. 469–481
Mladen Bestvina, and Michael Handel, Train tracks and automorphisms of free groups. Annals of Mathematics (2 ), vol. 135 (1992), no. 1, pp. 1–51
M. Bestvina and M. Feighn, A combination theorem for negatively curved groups. Journal of Differential Geometry , Volume 35 (1992), pp. 85–101
M. Bestvina and M. Feighn. Stable actions of groups on real trees. Inventiones Mathematicae , vol. 121 (1995), no. 2, pp. 287 321
Bestvina, Mladen and Brady, Noel, Morse theory and finiteness properties of groups . Inventiones Mathematicae , vol. 129 (1997), no. 3, pp. 445–470
Mladen Bestvina, Mark Feighn, and Michael Handel. The Tits alternative for Out(F n ). I. Dynamics of exponentially-growing automorphisms. Annals of Mathematics (2 ), vol. 151 (2000), no. 2, pp. 517–623
Mladen Bestvina, Mark Feighn, and Michael Handel. The Tits alternative for Out(F n ). II. A Kolchin type theorem. Annals of Mathematics (2 ), vol. 161 (2005), no. 1, pp. 1–59
Bestvina, Mladen; Bux, Kai-Uwe; Margalit, Dan, The dimension of the Torelli group . Journal of the American Mathematical Society , vol. 23 (2010), no. 1, pp. 61–105
See also
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References
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^ "Mladen Bestvina" . imo-official.org . International Mathematical Olympiad . Retrieved 2010-02-10 .
^ Research brochure: Mladen Bestvina , Department of Mathematics, University of Utah . Accessed February 8, 2010
^ Mladen F. Bestvina , Mathematics Genealogy Project . Accessed February 8, 2010.
^ "Scholars | Institute for Advanced Study" . www.ias.edu . August 14, 2015.
^ a b Mladen Bestvina: Distinguished Professor , Aftermath , vol. 8, no. 4, April 2008. Department of Mathematics, University of Utah .
^ Sloan Fellows. Department of Mathematics, University of Utah . Accessed February 8, 2010
^ Sloan Research Fellowships , Archived 2011-04-24 at the Wayback Machine Alfred P. Sloan Foundation . Accessed February 8, 2010
^ Award Abstract #8857452. Mathematical Sciences: Presidential Young Investigator. National Science Foundation . Accessed February 8, 2010
^ Invited Speakers for ICM2002. Notices of the American Mathematical Society , vol. 48, no. 11, December 2001; pp. 1343 1345
^ ICM Plenary and Invited Speakers Mladen Bestvina
^ Annual Lecture Series. Archived 2010-06-09 at the Wayback Machine Department of Mathematics, University of Chicago . Accessed February 9, 2010
^ Officers and Committee Members , Notices of the American Mathematical Society , vol. 54, no. 9, October 2007, pp. 1178 1187
^ Editorial Board , Archived 2009-05-19 at archive.today Annals of Mathematics . Accessed February 8, 2010
^ "Duke Mathematical Journal" .
^ Editorial Board , Geometric and Functional Analysis . Accessed February 8, 2010
^ Editorial Board Geometry and Topology
^ Editorial Board. Journal of Topology and Analysis . Accessed February 8, 2010
^ Editorial Board , Groups, Geometry and Dynamics . Accessed February 8, 2010
^ Editorial Board , Michigan Mathematical Journal . Accessed February 8, 2010
^ Editorial Board , Rocky Mountain Journal of Mathematics. Accessed February 8, 2010
^ Editorial Board , Glasnik Matematicki. Accessed February 8, 2010
^ List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society , retrieved 2012-11-10.
^ Bestvina, Mladen, Characterizing k -dimensional universal Menger compacta .
Memoirs of the American Mathematical Society , vol. 71 (1988), no. 380
^ John J. Walsh, Review of: Bestvina, Mladen, Characterizing k -dimensional universal Menger compacta . Mathematical Reviews , MR0920964 (89g:54083), 1989
^ M. Bestvina and M. Feighn, A combination theorem for negatively curved groups. Journal of Differential Geometry , Volume 35 (1992), pp. 85–101
^ Emina ALibegovic, A Combination Theorem for Relatively Hyperbolic Groups. Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society vol. 37 (2005), pp. 459–466
^ Francois Dahmani, Combination of convergence groups. Geometry and Topology , Volume 7 (2003), 933–963
^ I. Kapovich, The combination theorem and quasiconvexity. International Journal of Algebra and Computation, Volume: 11 (2001), no. 2, pp. 185–216
^ M. Mitra, Cannon–Thurston maps for trees of hyperbolic metric spaces. Journal of Differential Geometry , Volume 48 (1998), Number 1, 135–164
^ M. Bestvina and M. Feighn. Stable actions of groups on real trees. Inventiones Mathematicae , vol. 121 (1995), no. 2, pp. 287 321
^ Morgan, John W. , Shalen, Peter B. , Free actions of surface groups on R-trees .
Topology , vol. 30 (1991), no. 2, pp. 143–154
^ a b Mladen Bestvina, and Michael Handel, Train tracks and automorphisms of free groups. Annals of Mathematics (2 ), vol. 135 (1992), no. 1, pp. 1–51
^ P. Brinkmann, Hyperbolic automorphisms of free groups. Geometric and Functional Analysis , vol. 10 (2000), no. 5, pp. 1071–1089
^ Martin R. Bridson and Daniel Groves. The quadratic isoperimetric inequality for mapping tori of free-group automorphisms. Memoirs of the American Mathematical Society, to appear.
^ O. Bogopolski, A. Martino, O. Maslakova, E. Ventura, The conjugacy problem is solvable in free-by-cyclic groups. Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society , vol. 38 (2006), no. 5, pp. 787–794
^ Mladen Bestvina, Mark Feighn, and Michael Handel. The Tits alternative for Out(F n ). I. Dynamics of exponentially-growing automorphisms. Archived 2011-06-06 at the Wayback Machine Annals of Mathematics (2 ), vol. 151 (2000), no. 2, pp. 517–623
^ Mladen Bestvina, Mark Feighn, and Michael Handel. The Tits alternative for Out(F n ). II. A Kolchin type theorem. Annals of Mathematics (2 ), vol. 161 (2005), no. 1, pp. 1–59
^ Bestvina, Mladen and Brady, Noel, Morse theory and finiteness properties of groups . Inventiones Mathematicae , vol. 129 (1997), no. 3, pp. 445–470
^ Brady, Noel, Branched coverings of cubical complexes and subgroups of hyperbolic groups . Journal of the London Mathematical Society (2 ), vol. 60 (1999), no. 2, pp. 461–480
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