Strong distortion in transformation groups

DOI10.1112/BLMS.12108MaRDI QIDQ4604594zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Frédéric Le Roux, Kathryn Mann

Publication date 2 March 2018

Published in Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1610.06720

zbMATH Keywords

Bergman propertycofinalitydistortionembedding theoremstransformation groups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Generators, relations, and presentations of groups (20F05) General theory of group and pseudogroup actions (22F05) Dynamical systems involving smooth mappings and diffeomorphisms (37C05) Groups acting on specific manifolds (57S25)

Abstract: We discuss boundedness and distortion in transformation groups. We show that the groups $mathrm{Diff}_0^r(mathbb{R}^n)$ and $mathrm{Diff}^r(mathbb{R}^n)$ have the strong distortion property, whenever $0leqrleqinfty,reqn+1$. This implies in particular that every abstract length function on these groups is bounded. With related techniques we show that, for $M$ a closed manifold or homeomorphic to the interior of a compact manifold with boundary, the groups $mathrm{Diff}_0^r(M)$ satisfy a relative Higman embedding type property, introduced by Schreier. This answers a problem asked by Schreier in the famous Scottish Book.

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