In recent work of Brock's, the pants graph is shown to be a combinatorial model for the completion of the Weil-Petersson metric on Teichmuller space. We prove that every Farey graph embedded in the pants graph is totally geodesic, in analogy with the extri ...
This thesis deals with the study of G-forms and particulary the trace form of a G-Galois algebra. Let k be a field of characteristic not two. Let G be a finite group and L a G-Galois algebra over k. We define the trace form qL by qL(x, y) = TrL/k(xy) for a ...