Dynamical forcing of circular groups

dc.creatorCalegari, Danny
dc.date2003-12-03
dc.date2004-09-09
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T06:29:28Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T06:29:28Z
dc.descriptionIn this paper we introduce and study the notion of dynamical forcing. Basically, we develop a toolkit of techniques to produce finitely presented groups which can only act on the circle with certain prescribed dynamical properties. As an application, we show that the set X of rotation numbers which can be forced by finitely presented groups is an infinitely generated Q-module, containing countably infinitely many algebraically independent transcendental numbers. We also show that the set of subsets of the circle which are the set of rotation numbers of an element g of a group G under all actions of G on a circle, as G varies over all countable groups, are exactly the set of closed subsets of the circle which contain 0, and are invariant under the involution which interchanges x and -x. As another application, we construct a finitely generated group which acts faithfully on the circle, but which does not admit any faithful C^1 action, thus answering in the negative a question of John Franks.
dc.description18 pages (v3: typos corrected)
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/math/0312066
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/math/0312066
dc.identifierTrans. Amer. Math. Soc. 358 (2006), no. 8, 3473-3491
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/98043
dc.subjectGroup Theory
dc.subjectDynamical Systems
dc.titleDynamical forcing of circular groups
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