Reversible maps and composites of involutions in groups of piecewise linear homeomorphisms of the real line

DOI10.1007/S00010-010-0002-9zbMATH Open1221.37082arXivmath/0702495OpenAlexW1974868567MaRDI QIDQ623382FDOQ623382

Authors: Nick Gill, Ian Short 

Publication date: 14 February 2011

Published in: Aequationes Mathematicae (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: An element of a group is emph{reversible} if it is conjugate to its own inverse, and it is emph{strongly reversible} if it is conjugate to its inverse by an involution. A group element is strongly reversible if and only if it can be expressed as a composite of two involutions. In this paper the reversible maps, the strongly reversible maps, and those maps that can be expressed as a composite of involutions are determined in certain groups of piecewise linear homeomorphisms of the real line.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0702495

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zbMATH Keywords

involutionpiecewise linear mapreversible map

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Dynamical systems involving maps of the interval (37E05) Topological properties of groups of homeomorphisms or diffeomorphisms (57S05) Groups acting on specific manifolds (57S25)

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