Braids, orderings, and minimal volume cusped hyperbolic 3-manifolds (Q1784010)
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Braids, orderings, and minimal volume cusped hyperbolic 3-manifolds (English)
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21 September 2018
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Summary: It is well known that there is a faithful representation of braid groups on automorphism groups of free groups, and it is also well known that free groups are bi-orderable. We investigate which \(n\)-strand braids give rise to automorphisms which preserve some bi-ordering of the free group \(F_n\) of rank \(n\). As a consequence of our work we find that of the two minimal volume hyperbolic 2-cusped orientable 3-manifolds, one has bi-orderable fundamental groupwhereas the other does not. We prove a similar result for the 1-cusped case, and have further results for more cusps. In addition, we study pseudo-Anosov braids and find that typically those with minimal dilatation are not order-preserving.
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ordered groups
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bi-orderings
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knots and links
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braid groups
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free groups
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mapping class groups
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fibered 3-manifolds
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