Dynamical forcing of circular groups

Mathematics – Group Theory

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In 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.

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