Faithful actions of automorphisms on the space of orderings of a group.

zbMATH Open1272.20044arXiv1011.2811MaRDI QIDQ416768FDOQ416768

Authors: Thomas Koberda 

Publication date: 10 May 2012

Published in: The New York Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In this article we study the space of left- and bi-invariant orderings on a torsion-free nilpotent group $G$. We will show that generally the set of such orderings is equipped with a faithful action of the automorphism group of $G$. We prove a result which allows us to establish the same conclusion when $G$ is assumed to be merely residually torsion-free nilpotent. In particular, we obtain faithful actions of mapping class groups of surfaces. We will draw connections between the structure of orderings on residually torsion-free nilpotent, hyperbolic groups and their Gromov boundaries, and we show that in those cases a faithful $Aut(G)$-action on the boundary is equivalent to a faithful $Aut(G)$ action on the space of left--invariant orderings.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1011.2811

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zbMATH Keywords

torsion-free nilpotent groupsautomorphism groupshyperbolic groupsleft-orderable groupsleft-invariant ordersfaithful actionsGromov boundariesmapping class groups of surfacesorderings on groupstotal order relations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Automorphisms of infinite groups (20E36) Automorphism groups of groups (20F28) Hyperbolic groups and nonpositively curved groups (20F67) Group actions on manifolds and cell complexes in low dimensions (57M60) Ordered groups (06F15) Nilpotent groups (20F18) Ordered groups (group-theoretic aspects) (20F60)

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