Abelianization of some groups of interval exchanges
Abstract
Let IET be the group of bijections from to itself that are continuous outside a finite set, right-continuous and piecewise translations. The abelianization homomorphism , called SAF-homomorphism, was described by Arnoux-Fathi and Sah. The abelian group is the second exterior power of the reals over the rationals. For every subgroup of we define as the subgroup of consisting of all elements such that is continuous outside . Let be the preimage of in . We establish an isomorphism between the abelianization of and the second skew-symmetric power of over denoted by . This group often has non-trivial -torsion, which is not detected by the SAF-homomorphism. We then define the group of all interval exchange transformations with flips. Arnoux proved that this group is simple thus perfect. However for every subgroup we establish an isomorphism between its abelianization and which is a -elementary abelian subgroup of .
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@article{arxiv.2009.07595,
title = {Abelianization of some groups of interval exchanges},
author = {Octave Lacourte},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2009.07595},
year = {2020}
}
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42 pages, 9 figures