Outer automorphism groups of ordered permutation groups

DOI10.1515/FORM.2002.026MaRDI QIDQ4530801zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors S. Shelah, Manfred Droste

Publication date 5 June 2002

Published in Forum Mathematicum (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0010304

zbMATH Keywords

automorphism groups of doubly homogeneous chainsDedekind completionsouter automorphism groups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Ordered groups (06F15) Multiply transitive infinite groups (20B22) Automorphism groups of groups (20F28) Representations of groups as automorphism groups of algebraic systems (20F29)

Abstract: An infinite linearly ordered set (S,<=) is called doubly homogeneous if its automorphism group A(S) acts 2-transitively on it. We show that any group G arises as outer automorphism group G cong Out(A(S)) of the automorphism group A(S), for some doubly homogeneous chain (S,<=).

Review text

A chain (i.e. a totally ordered set) is doubly homogeneous if any interval can be mapped onto any interval by an isomorphism of the chain. The main result of the paper is that any group is isomorphic to the outer automorphism group of the automorphism group of a doubly homogeneous chain. This result is used by \textit{M. Droste}, \textit{M. Giraudet} and \textit{R. Göbel} [J. Lond. Math. Soc., II. Ser. 64, No. 3, 565-575 (2001; Zbl 1015.20027)] to show that every group appears as outer automorphism group of some simple group. The chain is obtained by an iterative extension taking care of extending and establishing partial automorphisms of the Dedekind completion. The conjugation with these automorphisms will yield the required outer automorphisms. A crucial fact is that every automorphism of the automorphism group of a doubly homogeneous chain is conjugation by an automorphism or antiisomorphism of the Dedekind completion of the chain, see \textit{A. M. W. Glass} [Ordered permutation groups (London Mathematical Society Lecture Note Series, 55. Cambridge etc., Cambridge University Press) (1981; Zbl 0473.06010)].

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