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Finitely presented left orderable monsters

Group Theory 2024-05-08 v2 Dynamical Systems

Abstract

A left orderable monster is a finitely generated left orderable group all of whose fixpoint-free actions on the line are proximal: the action is semiconjugate to a minimal action so that for every bounded interval II and open interval JJ, there is a group element that sends II into JJ. In his 2018 ICM address, Navas asked about the existence of left orderable monsters. By now there are several examples, all of which are finitely generated but not finitely presentable. We provide the first examples of left orderable monsters that are finitely presentable, and even of type FF_\infty. The construction itself is elementary, and these groups satisfy several additional properties separating them from the previous examples: they are not simple, they act minimally on the circle, and they have an infinite-dimensional space of homogeneous quasimorphisms. Our construction is flexible enough that it produces infinitely many isomorphism classes of finitely presented (and type FF_{\infty}) left orderable monsters.

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@article{arxiv.2211.05268,
  title  = {Finitely presented left orderable monsters},
  author = {Francesco Fournier-Facio and Yash Lodha and Matthew C. B. Zaremsky},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2211.05268},
  year   = {2024}
}

Comments

12 pages. v2: Final version, to appear in Ergodic Theory and Dynamical Systems

R2 v1 2026-06-28T05:33:43.034Z