Remark on ordered braid groups

Abstract: We recover the Dehornoy order on the braid group

B_{2 g + n}

from the tracial state on a cluster

C^{*}

-algebra

m a t h b b A (S_{g, n})

associated to the surface

S_{g, n}

of genus

g

with

n

boundary components. It is proved that the space of left-ordering of the fundamental group

p i_{1} (S_{g, n})

is a totally disconnected dense subspace of the projective Teichm"uller space

m a t h b b P T_{g, n} c o n g m a t h b f R^{6 g - 7 + 2 n}

. In particular, each left-ordering of

p i_{1} (S_{g, n})

defines the orbit of a Riemann surface

S_{g, n}

under the geodesic flow on the space

T_{g, n}

.

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