Existence and genericity of finite topological generating sets for homeomorphism groups

DOI10.1512/IUMJ.2019.68.7797MaRDI QIDQ5113787zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Azer Akhmedov, Michael P. Cohen

Publication date 17 June 2020

Published in Indiana University Mathematics Journal (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1508.04604

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Groups of diffeomorphisms and homeomorphisms as manifolds (58D05)

Abstract: We show that the topological groups $Dif{f}_{+}^1(I)$ and $Dif{f}_{+}^1(mathbb{S}^1)$ of orientation-preserving $C^1$-diffeomorphisms of the interval and the circle, respectively, admit finitely generated dense subgroups. We also investigate the question of genericity (in the sense of Baire category) of such finite topological generating sets in related groups. We show that the generic pair of elements in the homeomorphism group $Home{o}_{+}(I)$ generate a dense subgroup of $Home{o}_{+}(I)$. By contrast, if $M$ is any compact connected manifold with boundary other than the interval, we observe that an open dense set of pairs from the associated boundary-fixing homeomorphism group $Homeo(M,partialM)$ will generate a discrete subgroup. We make similar observations for homeomorphism groups of manifolds without boundary including $mathbb{S}^1$.

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