An algebraic classification of some solvable groups of homeomorphisms.

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Abstract: We produce two separate algebraic descriptions of the isomorphism classes of the solvable subgroups of the group PLo(I) of piecewise-linear orientation-preserving homeomorphisms of the unit interval under the operation of composition, and also of the solvable subgroups of the generalized R. Thompson groups F_n. The first description is as a set of isomorphism classes of groups which is closed under three algebraic operations, and the second is as the set of isomorphism classes of subgroups of a countable collection of easily described groups. We show the two descriptions are equivalent.


The author gives two different algebraic descriptions of the isomorphism classes of solvable subgroups of the group \(\text{PL}_0(I)\) of piecewise-linear orientation-preserving homeomorphisms of the unit interval \(I\), and also of the generalized R.~Thompson groups \(F_n\). The first description is as a set of isomorphism classes of groups which is closed under three algebraic operations. The second is as a set of isomorphism classes of subgroups of a countable collection of groups obtained inductively by a wreath product construction. The main result is that these two descriptions give the same class of groups. The methods are a careful study of the dynamics of groups of piecewise linear homeomorphisms with respect to the ``orbitals of single elements \(h\in H\), where an orbital is a connected component of the complement \(\{x\in I;\;h(x)\neq x\}\) of the support of \(h\). The paper uses the geometric results of the author's paper [J. Lond. Math. Soc., II. Ser. 78, No. 2, 352-372 (2008; Zbl 1192.20025)].











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