# Joaquín Brum's research while affiliated with Universidad de la República de Uruguay and other places

## Publications (15)

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We prove a structural result for orientation-preserving actions of finitely generated solvable groups on real intervals, considered up to semi-conjugacy. As applications we obtain new answers to a problem first considered by J. F. Plante, which asks under which conditions an action of a solvable group on a real interval is semi-conjugate to an acti...
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We prove various results that, given a sufficiently rich subgroup $G$ of the group of homeomorphisms on the real line, describe the structure of the other possible actions of $G$ on the real line, and address under which conditions such actions must be semi-conjugate to the natural defining action of $G$. The main assumption is that $G$ should be l...
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We show that for generic homeomorphisms homotopic to the identity in a closed and oriented surface of genus $g>1$, the rotation set is given by a union of at most $2^{5g-3}$ convex sets. Examples showing the sharpness for this asymptotic order are provided.
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We give the topological obstructions to be a leaf in a minimal lamination by hyperbolic surfaces whose generic leaf is homeomorphic to a Cantor tree. Then, we show that all allowed topological types can be simultaneously embedded in the same lamination. This result, together with results of Alvarez-Brum-Mart\'inez-Potrie and Blanc, complete the pan...
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We study the geometry of positive cones of left-invariant total orders (left-order, for short) in finitely generated groups. We introduce the {\em Hucha property} and the {\em Prieto property} for left-orderable groups. The first one means that in any left-order the corresponding positive cone is not coarsely connected, and the second one that in a...
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We construct minimal laminations by hyperbolic surfaces whose generic leaf is a disk and contain any prescribed family of surfaces and with a precise control of the topologies of the surfaces that appear. The laminations are constructed via towers of finite coverings of surfaces for which we need to develop a relative version of residual finiteness...
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We show that certain orderable groups admit no isolated left orders. The groups we consider are cyclic amalgamations of a free group with a general orderable group, the HNN extensions of free groups over cyclic subgroups, and a particular class of one-relator groups. In order to prove the results about orders, we develop perturbation techniques for...
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In this work we exhibit flexibility phenomena for some (countable) groups acting by order preserving homeomorphisms of the line. More precisely, we show that if a left orderable group admits an amalgam decomposition of the form G = F n ∗ Z F m where n + m ⩾ 3 , then every faithful action of G on the line by order preserving homeomorphisms can be ap...
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We prove that if $\Gamma$ is a countable group without a subgroup isomorphic to $\mathbb{Z}^2$ that acts faithfully and minimally by orientation preserving homeomorphisms on the circle, then it has a free orbit. We give examples showing that this does not hold for actions by homeomorphisms of the line.
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We study the space of representations $Hom(\pi_1(\Sigma), Homeo_+(\mathbb{R}))$, where $\pi_1(\Sigma)$ is the fundamental group of a hyperbolic closed surface, and $Homeo_+(\mathbb{R})$ is the group of order-preserving homeomorphisms of the real line. We focus on the subspace $Hom_{\#}$ of the representations with no global fixed points. We show th...
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Let $f\colon M\to M$ be an expansive homeomorphism with dense topologically hyperbolic periodic points, $M$ a compact manifold. Then there is a local product structure in an open and dense subset of $M$. Moreover, if some topologically hyperbolic periodic point has codimension one, then this local product structure is uniform. In particular, we con...

## Citations

... In a more recent work [4], S. Álvarez & J. Brum describe the allowed topologies for non-generic leaves of laminations that can occur when the topological type of the generic leaf is given, showing that Condition ( ) is a necessary and sufficient condition. ...
... In previous works, the authors have given examples of groups not admitting regular left-orders [1,31]. In this paper we focus instead on constructing regular leftorders. ...
... In a companion paper [2], written together with Martínez and Potrie, we treated the case of minimal hyperbolic solenoids with a simply connected generic leaf. More precisely, we constructed a minimal lamination by hyperbolic surfaces such that every non-compact surface is homeomorphic to a leaf of the lamination. ...
... This can be used to show that some groups, for instance braid groups (see Dubrovin and Dubrovina [37], or the monograph by Dehornoy, Dynnikov, Rolfsen, and Wiest [31]), do have locally rigid actions. However the converse to this criterion does not hold, and this approach has been more fruitful in the opposite direction, namely for showing that a group has no isolated order from flexibility of the dynamical realization (see for instance the works by Navas [90], or by Alonso, and the first and third named authors [2,3], as well as by Malicet, Mann, and the last two authors [66]). One difficulty underlying this approach is that it is usually not easy to determine when two orders in LO(G) give rise to semi-conjugate actions. ...
... Note that many finitely generated groups which belong to the class F, or even to the more restricted class F 0 , do indeed admit exotic actions falling in (3), for instance as a consequence of Proposition 1.5 (but not all groups in F 0 do, see Theorem 1.20 below). Moreover in some cases there are uncountably many non-semi-conjugate such actions (see for instance Theorem 1.18 below for the case of Thompson's group F ), and the variety and flexibility of constructions suggest that in general it is too complicated to obtain a reasonably explicit description of all semi-conjugacy classes of exotic actions (however the word explicit is crucial here, as we shall see in Theorem 1.14 that such a description exists in principle). ...
... We have the following theorem which says that all expansive homeomorphisms of orientable surfaces are finitely presented, see [10,9,12,2]. We have adapted the language of this theorem from (pseudo-)Anosov diffeomorphisms to the language of Smale spaces (Anosov diffeomorphisms) and finitely presented systems (pseudo-Anosov diffeomorphisms). ...