Andrea Egidio Monti
PhD student at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in Bonn, where my advisor is Ursula Hamenstädt.
Previously, I was student at the Scuola Normale Superiore and University of Pisa, where I achieved my Bachelor and Master degrees.
Contact info
Mathematics Institute, University of Bonn
Endenicher Allee 60, Bonn
email: amonti[at]math.uni-bonn.de
Research interests
I am generally interested in hyperbolic geometry and low dimensional topology, with focus mainly on the study of geometric structures on surfaces. Currently, my research centres on Teichmüller theory around a deformation called grafting. In its simplest form, grafting is the insertion in a hyperbolic surface of a flat cylinder in place of a simple closed geodesic. But it appears also in different flavours, for instance as deformation of complex projective structures, or deformation of Hitchin representations.
Geometric objects I often use in my work are hyperbolic surfaces, translation surfaces, geodesic currents, length functions, train tracks, measured laminations and foliations.
I also would like to learn more about higher Teichmüller theory and how some of the concepts and tools developed in the classical theory can be generalized in the setting of Hitchin representations.
Preprints and publications
A geometric boundary for the moduli space of grafted surfaces arXiv:2411.04921
Geometry and dynamics of Hitchin grafting representations (with Pierre-Louis Blayac, Ursula Hamenstädt and Théo Marty) arXiv:2407.07748
Here you can find my Master thesis, which presents a result by Maryam Mirzakhani from 2008.
Master Thesis - Earthquake and horocycle flows over Teichmuller space
Advisor: Bruno Martelli