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On spaces of Conradian group orderings

Group Theory 2010-03-31 v2 Dynamical Systems

Abstract

We classify CC-orderable groups admitting only finitely many CC-orderings. We show that if a CC-orderable group has infinitely many CC-orderings, then it actually has uncountably many CC-orderings, and none of these is isolated in the space of CC-orderings. As a relevant example, we carefully study the case of Baumslag-Solitar's group B(1,2). We show that B(1,2) has four CC-orderings, each of which is bi-invariant, but its space of left-orderings is homeomorphic to the Cantor set.

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@article{arxiv.0907.4340,
  title  = {On spaces of Conradian group orderings},
  author = {Cristóbal Rivas},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0907.4340},
  year   = {2010}
}