Distortion in transformation groups (with an appendix by Yves de Cornulier)

DOI10.2140/GT.2006.10.267zbMATH Open1106.37017arXivmath/0509701OpenAlexW2146281495MaRDI QIDQ2501682FDOQ2501682

Authors: Danny Calegari, Michael Freedman 

Publication date: 11 September 2006

Published in: Geometry \& Topology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We exhibit rigid rotations of spheres as distortion elements in groups of diffeomorphisms, thereby answering a question of J Franks and M Handel. We also show that every homeomorphism of a sphere is, in a suitable sense, as distorted as possible in the group Homeo(S^n), thought of as a discrete group. An appendix by Y de Cornulier shows that Homeo(S^n) has the strong boundedness property, recently introduced by G Bergman. This means that every action of the discrete group Homeo(S^n) on a metric space by isometries has bounded orbits.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0509701

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zbMATH Keywords

distortiontransformation groupsBergman propertyPixton action

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General theory of group and pseudogroup actions (22F05) Dynamical systems involving smooth mappings and diffeomorphisms (37C05) Dynamics induced by group actions other than (mathbb{Z}) and (mathbb{R}), and (mathbb{C}) (37C85) Group actions on manifolds and cell complexes in low dimensions (57M60) Groups acting on specific manifolds (57S25)

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