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The Burnside problem for $\text{Diff}_{\text{Vol}}(\mathbb{S}^2)$

Dynamical Systems 2020-12-23 v3 Group Theory

Abstract

Let SS be a closed surface and DiffVol(S)\text{Diff}_{\text{Vol}}(S) be the group of volume preserving diffeomorphisms of SS. A finitely generated group GG is periodic of bounded exponent if there exists kNk \in \mathbb{N} such that every element of GG has order at most kk. We show that every periodic group of bounded exponent GDiffVol(S)G \subset \text{Diff}_{\text{Vol}}(S) is a finite group.

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@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