Ping-pong partitions and locally discrete groups of real-analytic circle diffeomorphisms, I: Construction

DOI10.4171/JCA/78arXiv1906.03578OpenAlexW4389472866MaRDI QIDQ6320192FDOQ6320192

Dominique Malicet, Sébastien Alvarez, Juan I. Alonso, Carlos Meniño, Michele Triestino

Publication date: 9 June 2019

Abstract: Following the recent advances in the study of groups of circle diffeomorphisms, we describe an efficient way of classifying the topological dynamics of locally discrete, finitely generated, virtually free subgroups of the group

m a t h s f {D i f f}^{o} m e g a_{+} (m a t h b b S^{1})

of orientation preserving real-analytic circle diffeomorphisms, which include all subgroups of

m a t h s f {D i f f}^{o} m e g a_{+} (m a t h b b S^{1})

acting with an invariant Cantor set. An important tool that we develop, of independent interest, is the extension of classical ping-pong lemma to actions of fundamental groups of graphs of groups. Our main motivation is an old conjecture by P. R. Dippolito [Ann. Math. 107 (1978), 403--453] from foliation theory, which we solve in this restricted but significant setting: this and other consequences of the classification will be treated in more detail in a companion work.

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.4171/jca/78

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Free products of groups, free products with amalgamation, Higman-Neumann-Neumann extensions, and generalizations (20E06) Groups acting on trees (20E08) Dynamics induced by group actions other than (mathbb{Z}) and (mathbb{R}), and (mathbb{C}) (37C85) Topological properties of groups of homeomorphisms or diffeomorphisms (57S05)

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