LOCALLY INVARIANT ORDERS ON GROUPS

2006 ◽  
Vol 16 (06) ◽  
pp. 1161-1179 ◽  
Author(s):  
I. M. CHISWELL

Recent work by T. Delzant and S. Hair shows that certain groups are unique product groups. In effect, they show that the groups have a locally invariant order, an idea introduced by D. Promislow in the early eighties. Having a locally invariant order implies the group is a unique product group, and a strict left (or right) ordering on a group is a locally invariant order. We study properties of the class of LIO groups, that is, groups having a locally invariant order. The main result gives conditions under which the fundamental group of a graph of LIO groups is LIO. In particular, the free product of two LIO groups is LIO. There is an analogous result for a graph of right orderable groups. We also study tree-free groups (those having a free action without inversions on a Λ-tree, for some ordered abelian group Λ). In particular, a detailed proof that tree-free groups are LIO is given. There is also a detailed proof of an observation made by Hair, that the fundamental group of a compact hyperbolic manifold is virtually LIO.

2016 ◽  
Vol 26 (07) ◽  
pp. 1283-1321
Author(s):  
Shane O. Rourke

Let [Formula: see text] be an ordered abelian group. We show how a group admitting a free affine action without inversions on a [Formula: see text]-tree admits a natural graph of groups decomposition, where vertex groups inherit actions on [Formula: see text]-trees. We introduce a stronger condition (essential freeness) on an affine action and apply recent work of various authors to deduce that a finitely generated group admitting an essentially free affine action on a [Formula: see text]-tree is relatively hyperbolic with nilpotent parabolics, is locally relatively quasiconvex, and has solvable word, conjugacy and isomorphism problems. Conversely, given a graph of groups satisfying certain conditions, we show how an affine action of its fundamental group can be constructed. Specialising to the case of free affine actions, we obtain a large class of groups that have a free affine action on a [Formula: see text]-tree but that do not act freely by isometries on any [Formula: see text]-tree. We also give an example of a group that admits a free isometric action on a [Formula: see text]-tree but which is not residually nilpotent.


1993 ◽  
Vol 35 (3) ◽  
pp. 275-291 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Cowan ◽  
Norman R. Reilly

AbstractThe importance of the fundamental group of a graph in group theory has been well known for many years. The recent work of Meakin, Margolis and Stephen has shown how effective graph theoretic techniques can be in the study of word problems in inverse semigroups. Our goal here is to characterize those deterministic inverse word graphs that are Schutzenberger graphs and consider how deterministic inverse word graphs and Schutzenberger graphs can be constructed from subgroups of free groups.


2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (04) ◽  
pp. 1195-1212
Author(s):  
R. K. Guzman ◽  
P. B. Shalen

We investigate the geometry of closed, orientable, hyperbolic 3-manifolds whose fundamental groups are [Formula: see text]-free for a given integer [Formula: see text]. We show that any such manifold [Formula: see text] contains a point [Formula: see text] with the following property: If [Formula: see text] is the set of maximal cyclic subgroups of [Formula: see text] that contain non-trivial elements represented by loops of [Formula: see text], then for every subset [Formula: see text], we have rank [Formula: see text]. This generalizes to all [Formula: see text] results proved in [J. W. Anderson, R. D. Canary, M. Culler and P. B. Shalen, Free Kleinian groups and volumes of hyperbolic 3-manifolds, J. Differential Geom. 43 (1996) 738–782; M. Culler and P. B. Shalen, 4-free groups and hyperbolic geometry, J. Topol. 5 (2012) 81–136], which have been used to relate the volume of a hyperbolic manifold to its topological properties, and it strictly improves on the result obtained in [R. K. Guzman, Hyperbolic 3-manifolds with [Formula: see text]-free fundamental group, Topology Appl. 173 (2014) 142–156] for [Formula: see text]. The proof avoids the use of results about ranks of joins and intersections in free groups that were used in [M. Culler and P. B. Shalen, 4-free groups and hyperbolic geometry, J. Topol. 5 (2012) 81–136; R. K. Guzman, Hyperbolic 3-manifolds with [Formula: see text]-free fundamental group, Topology Appl. 173 (2014) 142–156].


2018 ◽  
Vol 167 (02) ◽  
pp. 229-247
Author(s):  
TAKAO SATOH

AbstractIn this paper, we study “the ring of component functions” of SL(2, C)-representations of free abelian groups. This is a subsequent research of our previous work [11] for free groups. We introduce some descending filtration of the ring, and determine the structure of its graded quotients.Then we give two applications. In [30], we constructed the generalized Johnson homomorphisms. We give an upper bound on their images with the graded quotients. The other application is to construct a certain crossed homomorphisms of the automorphism groups of free groups. We show that our crossed homomorphism induces Morita's 1-cocycle defined in [22]. In other words, we give another construction of Morita's 1-cocyle with the SL(2, C)-representations of the free abelian group.


10.37236/2732 ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
David S. Gunderson ◽  
Hanno Lefmann

If $G$ is a large $K_k$-free graph, by Ramsey's theorem, a large set of vertices is independent. For graphs whose vertices are positive integers, much recent work has been done to identify what arithmetic structure is possible in an independent set. This paper addresses  similar problems: for graphs whose vertices are affine or linear spaces over a finite field,  and when the vertices of the graph are elements of an arbitrary Abelian group.


2020 ◽  
Vol 29 (01) ◽  
pp. 1950097
Author(s):  
Jacob Mostovoy ◽  
Christopher Roque-Márquez

The group of planar (or flat) pure braids on [Formula: see text] strands, also known as the pure twin group, is the fundamental group of the configuration space [Formula: see text] of [Formula: see text] labeled points in [Formula: see text] no three of which coincide. The planar pure braid groups on 3, 4 and 5 strands are free. In this note, we describe the planar pure braid group on 6 strands: it is a free product of the free group on 71 generators and 20 copies of the free abelian group of rank two.


2011 ◽  
Vol 2011 ◽  
pp. 1-18 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rhys Davies

This is a short review of recent constructions of new Calabi-Yau threefolds with small Hodge numbers and/or nontrivial fundamental group, which are of particular interest for model building in the context of heterotic string theory. The two main tools are topological transitions and taking quotients by actions of discrete groups. Both of these techniques can produce new manifolds from existing ones, and they have been used to bring many new specimens to the previously sparse corner of the Calabi-Yau zoo, where both Hodge numbers are small. Two new manifolds are also obtained here from hyperconifold transitions, including the first example with fundamental groupS3, the smallest non-Abelian group.


2021 ◽  
Vol 2081 (1) ◽  
pp. 012030
Author(s):  
A O Shishanin

Abstract We observe some suitable examples of Calabi-Yau threefolds for heterotic superstring compactifications. It is reasonable to seek CY threefolds with Euler characteristic equals ±6 because of generation’s number. Hosotani mechanism for violations of the gauge group by the Wilson loops requires such CY space has a non-trivial fundamental group. These spaces can be obtained by factoring the complete intersection Calabi-Yau spaces by the free action of some discrete group. Also we shortly discuss cases when discrete groups act with fixed point sets.


2017 ◽  
Vol 104 (3) ◽  
pp. 289-307 ◽  
Author(s):  
HENRIK BACHMANN

Inspired by the recent work of M. Nakasuji, O. Phuksuwan and Y. Yamasaki, we combine interpolated multiple zeta values and Schur multiple zeta values into one object, which we call interpolated Schur multiple zeta values. Our main result will be a Jacobi–Trudi formula for a certain class of these new objects. This generalizes an analogous result for Schur multiple zeta values and implies algebraic relations between interpolated multiple zeta values.


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