It is well known that there is a faithful representation of braid groups on automorphism groups of free groups, and it is also well known that free groups are bi-orderable. We investigate which n-strand braids give rise to automorphisms which preserve some bi-ordering of the free group Fn of rank n. As a consequence of our work we find that of the two minimal volume hyperbolic 2-cusped orientable 3-manifolds, one has bi-orderable fundamental groupwhereas the other does not. We prove a similar result for the 1-cusped case, and have further results for more cusps. In addition, we study pseudo-Anosov braids and find that typically those with minimal dilatation are not order-preserving.
@article{10_4171_ggd_460,
author = {Eiko Kin and Dale Rolfsen},
title = {Braids, orderings, and minimal volume cusped hyperbolic 3-manifolds},
journal = {Groups, geometry, and dynamics},
pages = {961--1004},
year = {2018},
volume = {12},
number = {3},
doi = {10.4171/ggd/460},
url = {http://geodesic.mathdoc.fr/articles/10.4171/ggd/460/}
}
TY - JOUR
AU - Eiko Kin
AU - Dale Rolfsen
TI - Braids, orderings, and minimal volume cusped hyperbolic 3-manifolds
JO - Groups, geometry, and dynamics
PY - 2018
SP - 961
EP - 1004
VL - 12
IS - 3
UR - http://geodesic.mathdoc.fr/articles/10.4171/ggd/460/
DO - 10.4171/ggd/460
ID - 10_4171_ggd_460
ER -