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Remark on ordered braid groups

Geometric Topology 2025-06-27 v2 Group Theory Operator Algebras

Abstract

We recover the Dehornoy order on the braid group B2g+nB_{2g+n} from the tracial state on a cluster CC^*-algebra A(Sg,n)\mathbb{A}(S_{g,n}) associated to the surface Sg,nS_{g,n} of genus gg with nn boundary components. It is proved that the space of left-ordering of the fundamental group π1(Sg,n)\pi_1(S_{g,n}) is a totally disconnected dense subspace of the projective Teichm\"uller space PTg,nR6g7+2n\mathbb{P}T_{g,n}\cong \mathbf{R}^{6g-7+2n}. In particular, each left-ordering of π1(Sg,n)\pi_1(S_{g,n}) defines the orbit of a Riemann surface Sg,nS_{g,n} under the geodesic flow on the space Tg,nT_{g,n}.

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@article{arxiv.2206.08103,
  title  = {Remark on ordered braid groups},
  author = {Igor Nikolaev},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2206.08103},
  year   = {2025}
}

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to appear Journal of Topology and Analysis

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