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One-dimensional actions of Higman's group

Group Theory 2019-12-23 v2 Dynamical Systems

Abstract

We build a faithful action of Higman's group on the line by homeomorphisms, answering a question of Yves de Cornulier. As a by-product we obtain many quasimorphisms from the Higman group into the reals. We also show that every action by C1C^1-diffeomorphisms of Higman's group on the line or the circle is trivial.

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@article{arxiv.1905.00938,
  title  = {One-dimensional actions of Higman's group},
  author = {Cristóbal Rivas and Michele Triestino},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1905.00938},
  year   = {2019}
}

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15 pages, 4 figures. Published in Discrete Analysis