Subgroup of interval exchanges generated by torsion elements and rotations

DOI10.1090/PROC/12958MaRDI QIDQ2796726zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Michael Boshernitzan

Publication date 29 March 2016

Published in Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1208.1023

zbMATH Keywords

commutator subgroupinterval exchange transformationstorsion elements

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Dynamical aspects of measure-preserving transformations (37A05) Dynamical systems involving maps of the interval (37E05) Combinatorial dynamics (types of periodic orbits) (37E15) Transformation groups and semigroups (topological aspects) (54H15)

Abstract: Denote by $G$ the group of interval exchange transformations (IETs) on the unit interval. Let $G_{per}subsetG$ be the subgroup generated by torsion elements in $G$ (periodic IETs), and let $G_{rot}subsetG$ be the subset of 2-IETs (rotations). The elements of the subgroup $G_1=<G_{per},G_{rot}>subsetG$ (generated by the sets $G_{per}$ and $G_{rot}$) are characterized constructively in terms of their Sah-Arnoux-Fathi (SAF) invariant. The characterization implies that a non-rotation type 3-IET lies in $G_1$ if and only if the lengths of its exchanged intervals are linearly dependent over $Q$. In particular, $G_{1}subsetneqG$. The main tools used in the paper are the SAF invariant and a recent result by Y. Vorobets that $G_{per}$ coincides with the commutator subgroup of $G$.

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