Ping-pong configurations and circular orders on free groups

DOI10.4171/GGD/519MaRDI QIDQ2286348zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Kathryn Mann, Cristóbal Rivas, Michele Triestino, Dominique Malicet

Publication date 22 January 2020

Published in Groups, Geometry, and Dynamics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.02348

zbMATH Keywords

actions on one-dimensional manifoldsfree groupsleft-invariant order

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Free nonabelian groups (20E05) Ordered groups (group-theoretic aspects) (20F60) Dynamics induced by group actions other than (mathbb{Z}) and (mathbb{R}), and (mathbb{C}) (37C85) Dynamical systems involving maps of the interval (37E05) Dynamical systems involving maps of the circle (37E10) Group actions on manifolds and cell complexes in low dimensions (57M60)

Abstract: We discuss actions of free groups on the circle with "ping-pong" dynamics; these are dynamics determined by a finite amount of combinatorial data, analogous to Schottky domains or Markov partitions. Using this, we show that the free group $F_n$ admits an isolated circular order if and only if n is even, in stark contrast with the case for linear orders. This answers a question from (Mann, Rivas, 2016). Inspired by work of Alvarez, Barrientos, Filimonov, Kleptsyn, Malicet, Menino and Triestino, we also exhibit examples of "exotic" isolated points in the space of all circular orders on $F_2$. Analogous results are obtained for linear orders on the groups $F_{n}imesmathbbZ$.

Review text

Summary: We discuss actions of free groups on the circle with ``ping-pong dynamics; these are dynamics determined by a finite amount of combinatorial data, analogous to Schottky domains or Markov partitions. Using this, we show that the free group \(F_n\) admits an isolated circular order if and only if \(n\) is even, in stark contrast with the case for linear orders. This answers a question from [\textit{K. Mann} and \textit{C. Rivas}, Ann. Inst. Fourier 68, No. 4, 1399--1445 (2018; Zbl 07002300)]. Inspired by work in [\textit{S. Alvarez} et al., ``Generalized ping-pong partitions and locally discrete groups of real-analytic circle diffeomorphisms. II: Applications, Preprint, \url{arXiv:2104.03348}], we also exhibit examples of ``exotic isolated points in the space of all circular orders on \(F_2\). Analogous results are obtained for linear orders on the groups \(F_n \times \mathbb{Z}\).

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