Reversible maps and composites of involutions in groups of piecewise linear homeomorphisms of the real line (Q623382)

An element \(g\) of a group \(G\) is \textit{reversible} if it is conjugate to its own inverse within \(G\), and \(g\) is \textit{strongly reversible} if it is reversible and the conjugating map can be chosen to be an involution. Let H\((\mathbb R)\), PLF(\(\mathbb R)\) and PL\((\mathbb R)\) be the full group of homeomorphisms of the line \(\mathbb R\), the piecewise linear homeomorphisms of \(\mathbb R\) which are locally affine at all but a finite number of points, and the piecewise linear homeomorphisms of \(\mathbb R\) which are locally affine at all but a discrete set of points, respectively. In the present paper, the authors determined the reversible maps, the strongly reversible maps, and those maps that can be expressed as a composite of involutions in the above groups.