Distortion elements in group actions on surfaces

DOI10.1215/S0012-7094-06-13132-0MaRDI QIDQ817952zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors John Franks, Michael Handel

Publication date 23 March 2006

Published in Duke Mathematical Journal (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0404532

zbMATH Keywords

property Tdistorsiongroup actions on surfacesmeasure-preserving homeomorphism

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Measurable group actions (22F10) Dynamics induced by group actions other than (mathbb{Z}) and (mathbb{R}), and (mathbb{C}) (37C85) Group actions on manifolds and cell complexes in low dimensions (57M60)

Abstract: If $G$ is a finitely generated group with generators $g_1,\mathrm{...},g_j$ then an infinite order element $finG$ is a {em distortion element} of $G$ provided $displaystylelimin{f}_{noinfty}|f^n|/n=0,$ where $|f^n|$ is the word length of $f^n$ in the generators. Let $S$ be a closed orientable surface and let $Diff(S{)}_0$ denote the identity component of the group of $C^1$ diffeomorphisms of $S$. Our main result shows that if $S$ has genus at least two and if $f$ is a distortion element in some finitely generated subgroup of $Diff(S{)}_0$, then $supp(mu)subsetFix(f)$ for every $f$-invariant Borel probability measure $mu$. Related results are proved for $S=T^2$ or $S^2$. For $mu$ a Borel probability measure on $S$, denote the group of $C^1$ diffeomorphisms that preserve $mu$ by $Dif{f}_{mu}(S)$. We give several applications of our main result showing that certain groups, including a large class of higher rank lattices, admit no homomorphisms to $Dif{f}_{mu}(S)$ with infinite image.

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