Left-orderings on free products of groups (Q420732)

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    Left-orderings on free products of groups (English)
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    23 May 2012
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    In this interesting paper, the author shows the non-existence of isolated left-orderings on a free product of (left-orderable) groups. In particular, the author shows that the space of left-orderings of a free product of finitely generated groups is homeomorphic to the Cantor set. With the same techniques, the authors give a constructive proof of the fact that the natural conjugation action of the free group (of countable rank greater than one) on its space of left-orderings has a dense orbit.
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    orderable groups
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    space of orderings
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    isolated ordering
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    free product of groups
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