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Orders on trees and free products of left-ordered groups

Group Theory 2020-04-29 v2

Abstract

We construct total orders on the vertex set of an oriented tree. The orders are based only on up-down counts at the interior vertices and the edges along the unique geodesic from a given vertex to another. As an application, we provide a short proof (modulo Bass-Serre theory) of Vinogradov's result that the free product of left-orderable groups is left-orderable.

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@article{arxiv.1405.1676,
  title  = {Orders on trees and free products of left-ordered groups},
  author = {Warren Dicks and Zoran Sunic},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1405.1676},
  year   = {2020}
}