The space of bi-invariant orders on a nilpotent group.

zbMATH Open1272.20045MaRDI QIDQ416795FDOQ416795

Authors David Witte Morris 

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/1204.0454

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zbMATH Keywords

outer automorphism groupstorsion-free nilpotent groupsleft-orderable groupsleft-invariant ordersabstract commensuratorstotal order relations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Ordered groups (06F15) Nilpotent groups (20F18) Ordered groups (group-theoretic aspects) (20F60)

Abstract: We prove a few basic facts about the space of bi-invariant (or left-invariant) total order relations on a torsion-free, nonabelian, nilpotent group G. For instance, we show that the space of bi-invariant orders has no isolated points (so it is a Cantor set if G is countable), and give examples to show that the outer automorphism group of G does not always act faithfully on this space. Also, it is not difficult to see that the abstract commensurator group of G has a natural action on the space of left-invariant orders, and we show that this action is faithful. These results are related to recent work of T.Koberda that shows the automorphism group of G acts faithfully on this space.

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