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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

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, 2015, 35 (5) : 1817-1827. doi: 10.3934/dcds.2015.35.1817
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M. Bestvina, Questions in geometric group theory,, Available from , ().   Google Scholar

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G. Baumslag and D. Solitar, Some two generator one-relator non-Hopfian groups, Bull. Amer. Math. Soc., 68 (1962), 199-201. doi: 10.1090/S0002-9904-1962-10745-9.  Google Scholar

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D. Fisher, Groups acting on manifolds: Around the Zimmer program, Geometry, Rigidity and Group Actions, (2011), 72-157. doi: 10.7208/chicago/9780226237909.001.0001.  Google Scholar

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J.Franks and M. Handel, Distortion elements in group actions on surfaces, Duke Math. J., 131 (2006), 441-468. doi: 10.1215/S0012-7094-06-13132-0.  Google Scholar

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B. Farb, A. Lubotzky and Y. Minsky, Rank one phenomena for mapping class groups, Duke Math. J., 106 (2001), 581-597. doi: 10.1215/S0012-7094-01-10636-4.  Google Scholar

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J. Palis and J. C. Yoccoz, Centralizers of Anosov diffeomorphisms on tori, Ann. Sc. ENS, 22 (1989), 99-108.  Google Scholar

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[18]

R. Zimmer, Actions of semisimple groups and discrete subgroups, Proc. Internat. Congr. Math., 2 (1987), 1247-1258.  Google Scholar

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