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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 Λ\Lambda-tree is orderable. We give an example of a multiple HNN extension Γ\Gamma which acts freely on a Z2\mathbb{Z}^2-tree but which has non-trivial generalised torsion elements. The existence of such elements implies that Γ\Gamma 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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2 pages

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