Actions of solvable Baumslag-Solitar groups on surfaces with (pseudo)-Anosov elements

DOI10.3934/DCDS.2015.35.1817zbMATH Open1328.37025arXiv1310.2465OpenAlexW2015920495MaRDI QIDQ484408FDOQ484408

Authors: Yong-Cai Geng, Sumit K. Garg 

Publication date: 7 January 2015

Published in: Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Let $BS(1,n)=<a,b:ab{a}^{-1}=b^n>$ be the solvable Baumslag-Solitar group, where $ngeq2$. We study representations of $BS(1,n)$ by homeomorphisms of closed surfaces with (pseudo-)Anosov elements. That is, we consider a closed surface $S$, and homeomorphisms $f,h:SoS$ such that $hf{h}^{-1}=f^n$, for some $ngeq2$. It is known that $f$ (or some power of $f$) must be homotopic to the identity. Suppose that $h$ is pseudo-Anosov with stretch factor $lambda>1$. We show that $<f,h>$ is not a faithful representation of $BS(1,n)$ if $lambda>n$. Moreover, we show that there are no faithful representations of $BS(1,n)$ by torus homeomorphisms with $h$ an Anosov map and $f$ area preserving (regardless of the value of $lambda$).

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1310.2465

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zbMATH Keywords

surface homeomorphismsgroup actionsBaumslag-Solitar groupsrigidity theorypseudo-Anosov homeomorphisms

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Dynamical systems involving transformations and group actions with special properties (minimality, distality, proximality, expansivity, etc.) (37B05) Dynamics induced by group actions other than (mathbb{Z}) and (mathbb{R}), and (mathbb{C}) (37C85) Dynamical systems involving homeomorphisms and diffeomorphisms of planes and surfaces (37E30) Rotation numbers and vectors (37E45)

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