Orderings and flexibility of some subgroups of Homeo_+(R)

DOI10.1112/JLMS.12044MaRDI QIDQ5357258zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

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Publication date 14 September 2017

Published in Journal of the London Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1605.07671

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Ordered groups (group-theoretic aspects) (20F60) Dynamical systems involving maps of the interval (37E05)

Abstract: In this work we exhibit flexibility phenomena for some (countable) groups acting by order preserving homeomorphisms of the line. More precisely, we show that if a left orderable group admits an amalgam decomposition of the form $G=mathbb{F}_n{\ast }_{mathbbZ}mathbb{F}_m$ where $n+mgeq3$, then every faithful action of $G$ on the line by order preserving homeomorphisms can be approximated by another action (without global fixed points) that is not semi-conjugated to the initial action. We deduce that $mathcalLO(G)$, the space of left orders of $G$, is a Cantor set. In the special case where $G=p{i}_1(Sigma)$ is the fundamental group of a closed hyperbolic surface, we found finer techniques of perturbation. For instance, we exhibit a single representation whose conjugacy class in dense in the space of representations. This entails that the space of representations without global fixed points of $p{i}_1(Sigma)$ into $Home{o}_{+}(mathbbR)$ is connected, and also that the natural conjugation action of $p{i}_1(Sigma)$ on $mathcalLO(p{i}_1(Sigma))$ has a dense orbit.

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