On the height of subgroups of Homeo_+(I)

DOI10.1515/JGTH-2014-0037MaRDI QIDQ486452zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Azer Akhmedov

Publication date 15 January 2015

Published in Journal of Group Theory (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1403.2634

zbMATH Keywords

homeomorphisms of the intervalorbitalsigned orbitalsolvable subgrouptower of orbitals

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Solvable groups, supersolvable groups (20F16) Dynamical systems involving maps of the interval (37E05) Topological properties of groups of homeomorphisms or diffeomorphisms (57S05)

Abstract: In [Bl1], it is proved that a subgroup of $P{L}_{+}(I)$ has a finite height if and only if it is solvable. We prove the "only if" part for any subgroup of Homeo${}_{+}(I)$, and present a construction which indicates a plethora of examples of solvable groups with infinite height.

Review text

For a group \(\Gamma\) of orientation-preserving homeomorphisms of \([0,1]\) and \(g\in\Gamma\), call \(A\subset[0,1]\) an ``orbital provided that \(|A|>1\) and \(A\) is the convex hull of the orbit of a point of \([0,1]\) under \(g\) and the pair \((A,g)\) a ``signed orbital of \(\Gamma\). Signed orbitals may be given a natural partial order. A ``tower is a chain \(T\) of signed orbitals so that if \((A,g),(A,h)\in T\) then \(g=h\); if, further, \((A,g),(B,h)\in T\) with \((A,g)\not=(B,h)\) implies that \(A\) and \(B\) do not have a common end point then \(T\) is a ``strict tower. The height (resp. strict height) of \(\Gamma\), denoted by \(h(\Gamma)\) (resp. \(h_{\text{strict}}(\Gamma)\)) is the supremum of the cardinalities of the towers (resp. strict towers) of \(\Gamma\) (or \(\infty\)). If \(h(\Gamma)=n\) (resp. \(h_{\text{strict}}(\Gamma)=n\)) then \(\Gamma\) is solvable of solvability degree at most \(n\) (resp. \(n+1\)).

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