Residual nilpotence and ordering in one-relator groups and knot groups

DOI10.1017/S0305004114000644MaRDI QIDQ5360306zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors A. M. W. Glass, John S. Wilson, Ian Chiswell

Publication date 28 September 2017

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1405.0994

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Residual properties and generalizations; residually finite groups (20E26) Generators, relations, and presentations of groups (20F05) Other groups related to topology or analysis (20F38) Ordered groups (group-theoretic aspects) (20F60) Topological methods in group theory (57M07)

Abstract: Let $G=<x,tmidw>$ be a one-relator group, where $w$ is a word in $x,t$. If $w$ is a product of conjugates of $x$ then, associated with $w$, there is a polynomial $A_w(X)$ over the integers, which in the case when $G$ is a knot group, is the Alexander polynomial of the knot. We prove, subject to certain restrictions on $w$, that if all roots of $A_w(X)$ are real and positive then $G$ is bi-orderable, and that if $G$ is bi-orderable then at least one root is real and positive. This sheds light on the bi-orderability of certain knot groups and on a question of Clay and Rolfsen. One of the results relies on an extension of work of G. Baumslag on adjunction of roots to groups, and this may have independent interest.

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