The Burnside problem for $\text{Diff}_{\text{Vol}}(\mathbb{S}^2)$
Dynamical Systems
2020-12-23 v3 Group Theory
Abstract
Let be a closed surface and be the group of volume preserving diffeomorphisms of . A finitely generated group is periodic of bounded exponent if there exists such that every element of has order at most . We show that every periodic group of bounded exponent is a finite group.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1607.04603,
title = {The Burnside problem for $\text{Diff}_{\text{Vol}}(\mathbb{S}^2)$},
author = {Sebastian Hurtado and Alejandro Kocsard and Federico Rodríguez-Hertz},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1607.04603},
year = {2020}
}
Comments
Added Alejandro Kocsard and Federico Rodr\'iguez-Hertz as coauthors. Include new results about actions of periodic groups on Tori and hyperbolic manifolds