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Orderings and flexibility of some subgroups of $Homeo_+(\mathbb{R})$

Group Theory 2017-07-20 v3 Dynamical Systems Representation Theory

Abstract

In this work we exhibit flexibility phenomena for some (countable) groups acting by order preserving homeomorphisms of the line. More precisely, we show that if a left orderable group admits an amalgam decomposition of the form G=FnZFmG=\mathbb{F}_n*_{\mathbb Z} \mathbb{F}_m where n+m3n+m\geq 3, then every faithful action of GG on the line by order preserving homeomorphisms can be approximated by another action (without global fixed points) that is not semi-conjugated to the initial action. We deduce that LO(G)\mathcal{LO}(G), the space of left orders of GG, is a Cantor set. In the special case where G=π1(Σ)G=\pi_1(\Sigma) is the fundamental group of a closed hyperbolic surface, we found finer techniques of perturbation. For instance, we exhibit a single representation whose conjugacy class in dense in the space of representations. This entails that the space of representations without global fixed points of π1(Σ)\pi_1(\Sigma) into Homeo+(R)Homeo_+(\mathbb R) is connected, and also that the natural conjugation action of π1(Σ)\pi_1(\Sigma) on LO(π1(Σ))\mathcal{LO}(\pi_1(\Sigma)) has a dense orbit.

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@article{arxiv.1605.07671,
  title  = {Orderings and flexibility of some subgroups of $Homeo_+(\mathbb{R})$},
  author = {Juan Alonso and Joaquin Brum and Cristóbal Rivas},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1605.07671},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

27 pages, theorem about amalgams added