Promoting circular-orderability to left-orderability

DOI10.5802/AIF.3394MaRDI QIDQ6315406arXivFDO

Authors Jason P. Bell, Adam Clay, Tyrone Ghaswala

Publication date 11 March 2019

Published in arXiv

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.5802/AIF.3394

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Ordered groups (group-theoretic aspects) (20F60) Dynamical systems involving maps of the circle (37E10)

arXiv classification

math.DSmath.GRmath.GT

Abstract: Motivated by recent activity in low-dimensional topology, we provide a new criterion for left-orderability of a group under the assumption that the group is circularly-orderable: A group $G$ is left-orderable if and only if $GimesmathbbZ/nmathbbZ$ is circularly-orderable for all $n>1$. This implies that every circularly-orderable group which is not left-orderable gives rise to a collection of positive integers that exactly encode the obstruction to left-orderability, which we call the obstruction spectrum. We precisely describe the behaviour of the obstruction spectrum with respect to torsion, and show that this same behaviour can be mirrored by torsion-free groups, whose obstruction spectra are in general more complex.

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