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We study isometric actions of finitely presented groups on $\mathbb{R}$-trees. In this paper, we develop a relative version of the Rips machine to study $\textit{pairs}$ of such actions. An important example of a $\textit{pair}$ is a group…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2016-12-26 Pei Wang

We prove that the number of distinct group actions on compact Riemann surfaces of a fixed genus $\sigma \geq 2$ is at least quadratic in $\sigma$. We do this through the introduction of a coarse signature space, the space…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2015-05-05 James W. Anderson , Aaron Wootton

A Beauville group acts freely on the product of two compact Riemann surfaces and faithfully on each one of them. In this paper, we consider higher products and present {\it{generalised Beauville groups}}: for $d \geq 2$, $d$ is the minimal…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2019-09-10 Ludo Carta , Ben Fairbairn

We study non-nesting actions on R-trees. We prove that some natural conditions describing how the group is generated, imply that such an action involves an isometric action on an R-tree. This can be applied to permutation groups, linear…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2011-12-07 A. Ivanov

We establish a sharp sufficient condition for groups acting on trees to be highly transitive when the action on the tree is minimal of general type. This gives new examples of highly transitive groups, including icc non-solvable…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2022-09-05 Pierre Fima , François Le Maître , Soyoung Moon , Yves Stalder

This is the first paper in a series of three where we take on the unified theory of non-Archimedean group actions, length functions and infinite words. Our main goal is to show that group actions on Z^n-trees give one a powerful tool to…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2009-07-21 Olga Kharlampovich , Alexei Miasnikov , Vladimir Remeslennikov , Denis Serbin

In 2017, by using the group theoretic approach, Bennett, Hart, Iosevich, Pakianathan, and Rudnev obtained a number of results on the distribution of simplices and sum-product type problems. The main purpose of this paper is to give a series…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-09-21 Thang Pham

This paper explores acylindrical actions on trees, building on previous works related to the mapping class group and projection complexes. We demonstrate that the quotient action of a $1$-acylindrical action of a group on a tree by an…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2025-03-18 Bratati Som , Daxun Wang

Bass-Serre theory provides a powerful framework for studying group actions on trees. While extremely effective for structural questions in group theory, it is less suited to the systematic construction of group actions with prescribed local…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2026-04-02 Florian Lehner , Christian Lindorfer , Rögnvaldur G. Möller , Wolfgang Woess

We establish a one-to-one correspondence between rational multiplicative group actions on an algebraic variety $X$ and derivations $\partial\colon K_X\to K_X$ of the field of fractions $K_X$ of $X$ satisfying that there exists a generating…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2022-08-11 Luis Cid , Alvaro Liendo

In this paper we survey some recent results on actions of finite groups on topological manifolds. Given an action of a finite group $G$ on a manifold $X$, these results provide information on the restriction of the action to a subgroup of…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2023-12-19 Ignasi Mundet i Riera

The primary tool for analysing groups acting on trees is Bass--Serre Theory. It is comprised of two parts: a decomposition result, in which an action is decomposed via a graph of groups, and a construction result, in which graphs of groups…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2023-09-12 Colin D. Reid , Simon M. Smith

In [4] and [5], we generalized the concept of completion of an infinitesimal group action $\zeta : {\mathfrak g} \to \mathfrak X (M)$ to an actual group action on a (non-compact) manifold $M$, originally introduced by R. Palais [9], and…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-10-03 Franz W. Kamber , Peter W. Michor

This paper has three parts. The first part is a general introduction to rigidity and to rigid actions of mapping class group actions on various spaces. In the second part, we describe in detail four rigidity results that concern actions of…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2014-07-23 Athanase Papadopoulos

We prove cyclic sieving phenomena satisfied by corner-rooted plane trees (alias ordered trees). The sets of rooted plane trees that we consider are: (1) all trees with $n$ nodes; (2) all trees with $n$ nodes and $k$ leaves; (3) all trees…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-12-23 Mireille Bousquet-Mélou , Christian Krattenthaler

Tree-graded spaces are generalizations of R-trees. They appear as asymptotic cones of groups (when the cones have cut points). Since many questions about endomorphisms and automorphisms of groups, solving equations over groups, studying…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Cornelia Drutu , Mark Sapir

It is proved that if S^6 possesses an integrable complex structure, then there exists a 1-dimensional family of pairwise different exotic complex structures on P_3(C). This follows immediately from the main result of the paper: S^6 is not…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Alan T. Huckleberry , Stefan Kebekus , Thomas Peternell

We prove an acylindrical accessibility theorem for finitely generated groups acting on $\mathbf R$-trees. Namely, we show that if $G$ is a freely indecomposable non-cyclic $k$-generated group acting minimally and $M$-acylindrically on an…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Ilya Kapovich , Richard Weidmann

An additive action on an algebraic variety is an effective action of the vector group with an open orbit. We describe projective surfaces with du Val singularities that admit an additive action with a finite number of orbits. In particular,…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-08-12 Alexander Perepechko

In this work we deal with coverings and actions of Lie group- groupoids being a sort of the structured Lie groupoids. Firstly, we define an action of a Lie group-groupoid on some Lie group and the smooth coverings of Lie group-groupoids.…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2009-02-18 M. Habil Gürsoy , Ilhan Icen , A. Fatih Özcan