A tree-free group that is not orderable
Group Theory
2012-12-10 v1
Abstract
I. M. Chiswell has asked whether every group that admits a free isometric action (without inversions) on a -tree is orderable. We give an example of a multiple HNN extension which acts freely on a -tree but which has non-trivial generalised torsion elements. The existence of such elements implies that is not orderable.
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@article{arxiv.1212.1509,
title = {A tree-free group that is not orderable},
author = {Shane O. Rourke},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1212.1509},
year = {2012}
}
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