Most interval exchanges have no roots

DOI10.3934/JMD.2017011MaRDI QIDQ1630360zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Daniel Bernazzani

Publication date 10 December 2018

Published in Journal of Modern Dynamics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1602.02613

zbMATH Keywords

interval exchange transformationroot

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Dynamical systems involving transformations and group actions with special properties (minimality, distality, proximality, expansivity, etc.) (37B05) Dynamical systems involving maps of the interval (37E05)

Abstract: Let $T$ be an $m$-interval exchange transformation. By the rank of $T$ we mean the dimension of the $mathbbQ$-vector space spanned by the lengths of the exchanged intervals. We prove that if $T$ is minimal and the rank of $T$ is greater than $1+lfloorm/2floor$, then $T$ cannot be written as a power of another interval exchange. We also demonstrate that this estimate on the rank cannot be improved. In the case that $T$ is a minimal 3-interval exchange transformation, we prove a stronger result: $T$ cannot be written as a power of another interval exchange if and only if $T$ satisfies Keane's infinite distinct orbit condition. In the course of proving this result, we give a classification (up to conjugacy) of those minimal IETs whose discontinuities all belong to a single orbit.

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