Denominator bounds in Thompson-like groups and flows

DOI10.4171/GGD/6zbMATH Open1130.37365arXivmath/0609573OpenAlexW2048773186MaRDI QIDQ2369822FDOQ2369822

Authors: Danny Calegari 

Publication date: 21 June 2007

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

Abstract: Let T denote Thompson's group of piecewise 2-adic linear homeomorphisms of the circle. Ghys and Sergiescu showed that the rotation number of every element of T is rational, but their proof is very indirect. We give here a short, direct proof using train tracks, which generalizes to PL homeomorphism of the circle with rational break points and derivatives which are powers of some fixed integer, and also to certain flows on surfaces which we call "Thompson-like". We also obtain an explicit upper bound on the smallest period of a fixed point in terms of data which can be read off from the combinatorics of the homeomorphism

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0609573

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Dynamical systems involving maps of the circle (37E10) Rotation numbers and vectors (37E45)

Cites Work

• Sur la conjugaison différentiable des difféomorphismes du cercle à des rotations. (On smooth conjugacy of diffeomorphisms of the circle with rotations)
• Groups acting on the circle.
• Sur un groupe remarquable de difféomorphismes du cercle. (On a remarkable group of the diffeomorphisms of the circle)
• Rotation number, invariant measures and ratio set of PL homeomorphisms of the circle.

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• Rotation numbers in Thompson-Stein groups and applications
• Subgroups of \(\mathrm{PL}_+ I\) which do not embed into Thompson's group \(F\)
• Rotation Numbers of Elements in Thompson's Group ${\bf T}$
• Dynamics of affine interval transformations of Higman-Thompson groups \(V_{r, m}\)
• Free products in R. Thompson's group \(V\).
• Rational surface maps with invariant meromorphic two-forms

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