Actions of solvable Baumslag-Solitar groups on surfaces with (pseudo)-Anosov elements

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May 2015, 35(5): 1817-1827. doi: 10.3934/dcds.2015.35.1817

Actions of solvable Baumslag-Solitar groups on surfaces with (pseudo)-Anosov elements

Juan Alonso ^1, , Nancy Guelman ^2, and Juliana Xavier ^2,

1.	Centro de Matemática, Facultad de Ciencias, Iguá 4225, Montevideo, CP 11400, Uruguay
2.	IMERL, Facultad de Ingeniería, Julio Herrera y Reissig 565, Montevideo, CP 11300, Uruguay, Uruguay

Received March 2014 Revised September 2014 Published December 2014

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Let $BS(1,n)= \langle a,b : a b a ^{-1} = b ^n\rangle$ be the solvable Baumslag-Solitar group, where $n \geq 2$. We study representations of $BS(1, n)$ by homeomorphisms of closed surfaces of genus $g\geq 1$ with (pseudo)-Anosov elements. That is, we consider a closed surface $S$ of genus $g\geq 1$, and homeomorphisms $f, h: S \to S$ such that $h f h^{-1} = f^n$, for some $ n\geq 2$. It is known that $f$ (or some power of $f$) must be homotopic to the identity. Suppose that $h$ is (pseudo)-Anosov with stretch factor $\lambda >1$. We show that $\langle f,h \rangle$ is not a faithful representation of $BS(1, n)$ if $\lambda > n$. We also show that there are no faithful representations of $BS(1, n)$ by torus homeomorphisms with $h$ an Anosov map and $f$ area preserving (regardless of the value of $\lambda$).

Keywords: Rigidity theory., Baumslag-Solitar groups, group actions, pseudo-Anosov homeomorphisms, Surface homeomorphisms.

Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary: 37C85, 37E30, 37B05, 37E4.

Citation: Juan Alonso, Nancy Guelman, Juliana Xavier. Actions of solvable Baumslag-Solitar groups on surfaces with (pseudo)-Anosov elements. Discrete & Continuous Dynamical Systems - A, 2015, 35 (5) : 1817-1827. doi: 10.3934/dcds.2015.35.1817

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[2]	G. Baumslag and D. Solitar, Some two generator one-relator non-Hopfian groups,, Bull. Amer. Math. Soc., 68 (1962), 199. doi: 10.1090/S0002-9904-1962-10745-9.
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[4]	J.Franks and M. Handel, Distortion elements in group actions on surfaces,, Duke Math. J., 131 (2006), 441. doi: 10.1215/S0012-7094-06-13132-0.
[5]	B. Farb, A. Lubotzky and Y. Minsky, Rank one phenomena for mapping class groups,, Duke Math. J., 106 (2001), 581. doi: 10.1215/S0012-7094-01-10636-4.
[6]	B. Farb and D. Margalit, A Primer on Mapping Class Groups,, {Princeton University Press}, (2012).
[7]	B. Farb and L. Mosher, A rigidity theorem for the solvable Baumslag-Solitar groups,, Invent. Math., 131 (1998), 419. doi: 10.1007/s002220050210.
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[13]	J. D. McCarthy, Normalizers and centralizers of pseudo-Anosov mapping classes,, Preprint., ().
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[15]	J. F. Plante, Solvable groups acting on the line,, Trans. Amer. Math. Soc., 278 (1983), 401. doi: 10.1090/S0002-9947-1983-0697084-7.
[16]	J. Palis and J. C. Yoccoz, Centralizers of Anosov diffeomorphisms on tori,, Ann. Sc. ENS, 22 (1989), 99.
[17]	J. Rocha, A note on the $C 0$-centralizer of an open class of bidimensional Anosov diffeomorphisms,, Aequ. math., 76 (2008), 105. doi: 10.1007/s00010-007-2910-x.
[18]	R. Zimmer, Actions of semisimple groups and discrete subgroups,, Proc. Internat. Congr. Math., 2 (1987), 1247.

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