Left-orderable groups that don't act on the line

DOI10.1007/S00209-015-1455-2MaRDI QIDQ2516477zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Kathryn Mann

Publication date 3 August 2015

Published in Mathematische Zeitschrift (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1406.5575

zbMATH Keywords

germs of homeomorphismsgroup actionshomeomorphisms of the lineorderable group

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Ordered groups (group-theoretic aspects) (20F60) Dynamical systems involving maps of the interval (37E05) Group actions on manifolds and cell complexes in low dimensions (57M60) Groups of diffeomorphisms and homeomorphisms as manifolds (58D05)

Abstract: We show that the group of germs at infinity of orientation-preserving homeomorphisms of R admits no action on the line. This gives an example of a left-orderable group of the same cardinality as Homeo+(R) that does not embed in Homeo+(R). As an application of our techniques, we construct a finitely generated group of germs that does not extend to Homeo+(R) and, separately, extend a theorem of E. Militon on homomorphisms between groups of homeomorphisms.

Review text

A group is left-orderable if it admits a total order that is invariant under left multiplication. Denote by \(\mathcal H_+(\mathbb R)\) the group of orientation-preserving homeomorphisms and by \(\mathcal G_\infty\) the group of equivalence classes of such homeomorphisms under the equivalence \(f\sim g\) if there is \(x\in\mathbb R\) such that \(f\upharpoonleft[x,\infty)=g\upharpoonleft[x,\infty)\). Both groups are left-orderable but there is no non-trivial homomorphism \(\mathcal G_\infty\to\mathcal H_+(\mathbb R)\). It is noted that \(\mathcal G_\infty\) has cardinalty \(\mathfrak c\). The techniques are applied to describe a finitely generated subgroup of \(\mathcal G_\infty\) admitting no extension to \(\mathcal H_+(\mathbb R)\) and to show that \(\mathcal G_\infty\) does not act on the circle.

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