Classification of continuously transitive circle groups

DOI10.2140/GT.2006.10.1319MaRDI QIDQ860156zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors James Giblin, Vladimir Markovic

Publication date 23 January 2007

Published in Geometry \& Topology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0903.0180

zbMATH Keywords

transitive groupcircle groupcyclic coverconvergence group

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Structure of general topological groups (22A05) Dynamical systems involving maps of the circle (37E10) Topological groups (topological aspects) (54H11)

Abstract: Let G be a closed transitive subgroup of Homeo(S^1) which contains a non-constant continuous path f: [0,1] --> G. We show that up to conjugation G is one of the following groups: SO(2,R), PSL(2,R), PSL_k(2,R), Homeo_k(S^1), Homeo(S^1). This verifies the classification suggested by Ghys [Enseign. Math. 47 (2001) 329-407]. As a corollary we show that the group PSL(2,R) is a maximal closed subgroup of Homeo(S^1) (we understand this is a conjecture of de la Harpe). We also show that if such a group G < Homeo(S^1) acts continuously transitively on k-tuples of points, k>3, then the closure of G is Homeo(S^1) (cf Bestvina's collection of `Questions in geometric group theory').

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