Finitely presented left orderable monsters

DOI10.1017/ETDS.2023.49MaRDI QIDQ6416748zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Yash Lodha, Matthew C. B. Zaremsky

Publication date 9 November 2022

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1017/etds.2023.49

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Free products of groups, free products with amalgamation, Higman-Neumann-Neumann extensions, and generalizations (20E06) Geometric group theory (20F65) Dynamical systems involving maps of the interval (37E05) Dynamical systems involving maps of the circle (37E10)

Abstract: A left orderable monster is a finitely generated left orderable group all of whose fixpoint-free actions on the line are proximal: the action is semiconjugate to a minimal action so that for every bounded interval $I$ and open interval $J$, there is a group element that sends $I$ into $J$. In his 2018 ICM address, Navas asked about the existence of left orderable monsters. By now there are several examples, all of which are finitely generated but not finitely presentable. We provide the first examples of left orderable monsters that are finitely presentable, and even of type $F_{i}nfty$. The construction itself is elementary, and these groups satisfy several additional properties separating them from the previous examples: they are not simple, they act minimally on the circle, and they have an infinite-dimensional space of homogeneous quasimorphisms. Our construction is flexible enough that it produces infinitely many isomorphism classes of finitely presented (and type $F_{infty}$) left orderable monsters.

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