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Exotic left orderings of the free groups from the Dehornoy ordering

Group Theory 2009-10-26 v2

Abstract

We show that the restriction of the Dehornoy ordering to an appropriate free subgroup of the three-strand braid group defines a left ordering of the free group on k generators, k>1, that has no convex subgroups.

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@article{arxiv.0906.4997,
  title  = {Exotic left orderings of the free groups from the Dehornoy ordering},
  author = {Adam Clay},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0906.4997},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

8 pages, Proposition 3.2 has been removed due to an error in the proof. The main results of the paper are unchanged. Some typos corrected