The number of locally invariant orderings of a group

DOI10.1515/JGTH-2022-0126MaRDI QIDQ6095993zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Idrissa Ba, Adam Clay, I. Thompson

Publication date 11 September 2023

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.00766

zbMATH Keywords

locally invariant orderingorderingspace of orders

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Ordered groups (group-theoretic aspects) (20F60)

Abstract: We show that if a nontrivial group admits a locally invariant ordering, then it admits uncountably many locally invariant orderings. For the case of a left-orderable group, we provide an explicit construction of uncountable families of locally invariant orderings; for a general group we provide an existence theorem that applies compactness to yield uncountably many locally invariant orderings. Along the way, we define and investigate the space of locally invariant orderings of a group, the natural group actions on this space, and their relationship to the space of left-orderings.

Review text

A classical question about orderability in groups is to determine the number of possible order structures of a particular kind that may be supported by a given group \(G\). For example, in the case of bi-orderings, it is known that there are groups admitting only finitely many bi-orderings, there are groups admitting countably many bi-orderings, and there are groups admitting uncountably many biorderings (for instance, \(\mathbb{Z}^2\)). On the other hand, if we consider Conradian left-orderings, left-orderings, or circular orderings, a group \(G\) either admits finitely many or uncountably many such orderings. The paper under review contributes with a new result in this direction: if a nontrivial group \(G\) admits a locally invariant ordering (partial or total), then it admits uncountably many of them (partial and total). A locally invariant (partial or total) ordering \(\prec\) in a group \(G\) is a strict (partial or total) ordering on \(G\) such that, for any \(g,h\in G\) with \(h\neq 1\), either \(g\prec hg\) or \(g\prec h^{-1}g\) (a left-ordering is a locally invariant ordering while there exists locally invariant orderings which are not left-orderings). Along the way, the paper defines and investigates the space of locally invariant orderings of a group, the natural group actions on it and their relationship to the space of left-orderings.

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