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Borel structures on the space of left-orderings

Group Theory 2022-10-04 v4 Logic

Abstract

In this paper we study the Borel structure of the space of left-orderings LO(G)\mathrm{LO}(G) of a group GG modulo the natural conjugacy action, and by using tools from descriptive set theory we find many examples of countable left-orderable groups such that the quotient space LO(G)/G\mathrm{LO}(G)/G is not standard. This answers a question of Deroin, Navas, and Rivas. We also prove that the countable Borel equivalence relation induced from the conjugacy action of F2\mathbb{F}_{2} on LO(F2)\mathrm{LO}(\mathbb{F}_{2}) is universal, and leverage this result to provide many other examples of countable left-orderable groups GG such that the natural GG-action on LO(G)\mathrm{LO}(G) induces a universal countable Borel equivalence relation.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2002.02565,
  title  = {Borel structures on the space of left-orderings},
  author = {Filippo Calderoni and Adam Clay},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2002.02565},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

Example 2.10 was fixed. This version supersedes the published version

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