Ping-pong configurations and circular orders on free groups

DOI10.4171/GGD/519zbMATH Open1472.20057arXiv1709.02348MaRDI QIDQ2286348FDOQ2286348

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)

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 $F_{n}imesmathbbZ$.

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

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zbMATH Keywords

free groupsactions on one-dimensional manifoldsleft-invariant order

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Free nonabelian groups (20E05) 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) Ordered groups (group-theoretic aspects) (20F60)

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