Michelle Bucher-Karlsson

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Department of Mathematics

Royal Institute of Technology

SE - 100 44 Stockhom, Sweden.

E-Mail: mickar(at)kth.se

Phone: +46 (0)8 790 66 88

List of publications

Preprints and submitted articles

Milnor-Wood inequalities for manifolds which are locally a product of surfaces (with Tsachik Gelander), preprint (2009), submitted for publication. arXiv:0902.1215
Signature and Euler characteristic of surface bundles , preprint (2009). In preparation.

Published articles

Simplicial volume of products and fiber bundles, to appear in the Proceedings of the workshop on Discrete groups and geometric structures, with applications III (Kortrijk 2008), in the AMS Contempory Mathematics book series. pdf
On minimal triangulations of products of convex polygons. Discrete Comput. Geom 41, Issue 2 (2009), 328--347. pdf
Milnor-Wood inequalities for locally (H²)^n-manifolds (with Tsachik Gelander). C. R. Acad. Sci. Paris 346 (2008), no. 11-12, 661-666.
The simplicial volume of closed manifolds covered by H²×H², J. Topology 1 (2008), no. 3, 584-602. pdf
The proportionality constant for the simplicial volume of locally symmetric spaces, Colloq. Math. 111 No 2 (2008), 183-198. pdf
Volumes of ideal simplices in Hilbert's geometry and symmetric spaces (with Anders Karlsson), in Guido's book of conjectures, I. Chatterji (ed.). L'Enseignement Mathematique (2008), 53-55.
Finiteness properties of characteristic classes of flat bundles, L'Enseignement Mathematique 53 (2007), 33-66. pdf
Simplicial volume of locally symmetric spaces covered by SL(3,R)/SO(3), Geom. Dedicata 125 No 1 (2007), 203-224. pdf
On the definition of bolic spaces (with Anders Karlsson). Expo. Math 20 (2002), no.3, 269-277. ps
Free products with amalgamation, and HNN-extensions of uniformly exponential growth (with Pierre de la Harpe). (Russian) Mat. Zametki 67 (2000), no.6, 811-815; translation in Math. Notes 67 (2000), no.5-6, 686-689. ps

Unpublished notes

A detailed study of Savage's paper "The space of positive definite matrices and Gromov's invariant", Preprint (2005). pdf

Thesis and Curriculum

Ph.D. Thesis "Characteristic classes and bounded cohomology", advisor Marc Burger, ETHZ Zurich.

Diploma Thesis "Croissance de groupes et produits libres avec amalgamation", advisor Pierre de la Harpe, University of Geneva.