Max Forester 
Course information
Publications and preprints  (Click for abstracts)
 
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Deformation 
and rigidity of simplicial group actions on trees, 
Geom. Topol.
6 (2002), 219-267 
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On
uniqueness of JSJ decompositions of finitely generated groups, 
Comment. Math. Helv. 
78 (2003), 740-751 
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Diagrams 
and the second homotopy group, 
Comm. Anal. Geom. 
13 (2005), 801-820 
 (with Colin
Rourke)
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The
adjunction problem over torsion-free groups,  
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 
102 (2005), 12670-12671 
 (with Colin
Rourke)
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Splittings
of generalized Baumslag-Solitar groups, 
Geom. Dedicata  
121 (2006), 43-59
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A
fixed point theorem and relative asphericity, 
Enseign. Math. 
51 (2005), 231-237 
 (with Colin
Rourke)
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Snowflake 
groups, Perron-Frobenius eigenvalues, and isoperimetric spectra, 
Geom. Topol.
13 (2009), 141-187 
 (with 
Noel Brady, 
Martin Bridson, 
Krishnan Shankar)
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Whitehead
moves for G-trees, 
Bull. London Math. Soc. 41 (2009), 205-212 
 (with Matt
Clay)
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On the
isomorphism problem for generalized Baumslag-Solitar groups, 
Algebr. Geom.
Topol. 8 (2008), 2289-2322  
 (with Matt
Clay)
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Density
of isoperimetric spectra, 
Geom. Topol. 
14 (2010), 435-472
 (with Noel Brady)
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Turn
graphs and extremal surfaces in free groups, 
Contemp. Math. 560 (2011), 171-178 
 (with Noel
Brady, Matt Clay)
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Stable
  commutator length in Baumslag-Solitar groups and quasimorphisms for
  tree
  actions, Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 368
(2016), 4751-4785
 (with Matt
Clay, Joel Louwsma)
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The
  Dehn functions of Stallings-Bieri
  groups, Math. Ann. 368 (2017), 671-683
 (with William Carter)
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Snowflake
  geometry in CAT(0)
  groups, J. Topol. 10 (2017), 883-920
 (with Noel Brady)
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Effective  
quasimorphisms on right-angled Artin groups, 
Ann. Inst. Fourier 69 (2019), 1575-1626
 (with Talia
  Fernós, Jing Tao)
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Veech
  surfaces and simple closed curves, 
Israel
  J. Math. 223 (2018), 323-342
 (with Robert Tang, Jing Tao)
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Genus
  bounds in right-angled Artin groups, 
Publ. Mat. 64 (2020), 233-253
 (with Ignat
  Soroko, Jing Tao)
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On
  well-aligned elements of groups acting on trees, unpublished note
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On
  stable commutator length of non-filling curves in surfaces,
  Proc. Roy. Soc. Edinburgh Sect. A 155
     (2025), 975-992
 (with Justin
  Malestein)
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Incommensurable
  lattices in Baumslag-Solitar complexes, 
J. London Math. Soc. 109 (2024), e12879, 31 pp. 
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Finite-index
  accessibility of groups, preprint
 (with Anthony Martino)
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Topological
  properties of reflectionless canonical
  systems, Trans. Amer. Math. Soc., to appear
 (with Christian Remling)
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Minimal complexity cusped hyperbolic 3-manifolds with geodesic boundary, preprint
 (with Anuradha Ekanayake, Nicholas Miller)
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Department of
Mathematics, 
University of Oklahoma, 
Norman 
OK 
73019, 
USA 
email: 
mf@ou.edu   office:
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