Bounded orbits and global fixed points for groups acting on the plane

DOI10.2140/AGT.2012.12.421MaRDI QIDQ422103zbMATHOpenAlexFDO

Authors Kathryn Mann

Publication date 16 May 2012

Published in Algebraic \& Geometric Topology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1103.5060

zbMATH Keywords

fixed pointgroup actionplane homeomorphismBrouwer plane translationleft orderorientation-preserving homeomorphismsplanar actionprime end

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Dynamical systems involving homeomorphisms and diffeomorphisms of planes and surfaces (37E30) Group actions on manifolds and cell complexes in low dimensions (57M60)

Abstract: Let G be a group acting on the plane by orientation-preserving homeomorphisms. We show that if for some k>0 there is a ball of radius r > k/sqrt{3} such that each point x in the ball satisfies |gx -hx| < k for all g, h in G, and the action of G satisfies a nonwandering hypothesis, then the action has a global fixed point. In particular, any group of measure-preserving orientation preserving homeomorphisms of the plane with uniformly bounded orbits has a global fixed point. The constant k/sqrt{3} is sharp. We also show that a group acting on the plane with orbits bounded as above is left orderable.

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