Solvable Groups and Affine Actions on the Line

arXiv2209.00091MaRDI QIDQ6409402FDOQ6409402

Authors: Joaquin Brum, Nicolás Matte Bon, Cristóbal Rivas, Michele Triestino 

Publication date: 31 August 2022

Abstract: We prove a structural result for orientation-preserving actions of finitely generated solvable groups on real intervals, considered up to semi-conjugacy. As applications we obtain new answers to a problem first considered by J. F. Plante, which asks under which conditions an action of a solvable group on a real interval is semi-conjugate to an action on the line by affine transformations. We show that this is always the case for actions by $C^1$ diffeomorphisms on closed intervals. For arbitrary actions by homeomorphisms, for which this result is no longer true (as shown by Plante), we show that a semi-conjugacy to an affine action still exists in a local sense, at the level of germs near the endpoints. Finally for a vast class of solvable groups, including all solvable linear groups, we show that the family of affine actions on the line is robust, in the sense that any action by homeomorphisms on the line which is sufficiently close to an affine action must be semi-conjugate to an affine action. This robustness fails for general solvable groups, as illustrated by a counterexample.

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Groups acting on trees (20E08) Dynamical systems involving transformations and group actions with special properties (minimality, distality, proximality, expansivity, etc.) (37B05) Dynamics induced by group actions other than (mathbb{Z}) and (mathbb{R}), and (mathbb{C}) (37C85) Dynamical systems involving maps of the interval (37E05) Group actions on manifolds and cell complexes in low dimensions (57M60) Solvable groups, supersolvable groups (20F16) Ordered groups (group-theoretic aspects) (20F60)

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