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

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Authors Thomas Koberda

Publication date 10 May 2012

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1011.2811, http://www.emis.de/journals/NYJM/j/2011/17-33.html

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zbMATH Keywords

automorphism groupsfaithful actionsGromov boundarieshyperbolic groupsleft-invariant ordersleft-orderable groupsmapping class groups of surfacesorderings on groupstorsion-free nilpotent groupstotal order relations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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.

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